"PAKAPOO."

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 19

"PAKAPOO."

FAN TAN AND DICE. Nearly forty people were arrested in a raid on a gaming house in Pennyfield, Limehouse, and the sequel wbb heard at Thames Police Court, London, when one Japanese, several Chinamen, and more than twenty young Englishmen were charged -with frequent ng the house for the purpose of gaming. The magistrate bound over the Japanese in thi, sum of £3, on his giving an undertaking not to frequent such places in futurp. A similar course was adopted with the other men charged with frequenting.

Three Chinamen and an Englishman were then charged with keeping and managing the gaming house, the defendants being Wong Hing, Chew Wan, Lew-Ah-Lnm, and James Stroud, an elderly man. The three Chinamen pleaded guilty, and Stroud not guilty, adding: "I simply went in the same as the other people passing by." Police evidence was given that the game of pakapoo was being played In one room, j while papers and money used for this purpose were found. A second room was fitted up for fan tan, and a third for dice. It was added that several of the persons on the premises succeeded in making their escape. ' Mr. Cairns: Three years ago this pakapoo was an epidemic. , His Worship sentenced the first two prisoners to three monthß' and the third to two months' imprisonment,- recommendI ing them for deportation. Stroud was ordered to pay a fine of £10, with the alternative of fonr weeks' imprisonment. Later in the day an application was made to the magistrate that be would not enforce deportation against one of tbe Chinamen who was said to have au English-born wife and family, to whom be behaved well. 'Mr. Cairns said that be would leave the matter to the Home Office.