PREMISES RAIDED.
THIRTY MEN FINED. * A HOUSE IN WELLINGTON (Per Preßa Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day. Following a raid on an alleged gaming house in Dixon Street, where the police found, according to DetectiveSergeant Doyle, a billiard table fitted up for the purpose of and gambling with a rubber dice-shaker with dice, and also cards and a croupier’s stick and other paraphernalia, some 30 men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, mostly charged with being on the premises. The hulk of them were fined £2 and costs, but several with previous convictioins were fined £5 and costs, and one £3 10s.
The charge against the alleged occupier of the premises and his alleged assistant will be brought on May 30.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 187, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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