PAK-A-POO TICKETS.
WELLINGTON CHINESE FINED, SEVEN EUROPEANS ALSO. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 14. Several houses in Haming Street, in which it was suspected pak-a-poo tickets were being sold, were raided by the police yesterday. Ten Chinese and seven Europeans appeared in Court to-day to . answer charges of keeping common gaminghouses or being found on such premises. Six of the Chinese pleaded guilty to keeping premises for the sale of pak-a-poo tickets, and were each fined £lO, in default one month's imprisonment. Lo Kum,' however, who had three previous convictions, was fined £SO, in default three months' imprisonment.
Six Europeans were each fined £2 on admitting having been on gaming premises illegally, but Frederick Williams, aged 64, Ayho chose to go into the witness box, was fined £5. One Chinese eseaped with a £5 fine, although the Magistrate said he had narrowly escaped a conviction for assisting to keep the place.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 81, 16 January 1928, Page 3
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