CHINESE AT LAW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 66, 19 March 1930, Page 9

CHINESE AT LAW.

CLAIM FOR £106. MAGISTRATE RESERVES DECISION. A good deal was heard about the game of pakapoo as played by Chinese at the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon when a laundryman named Ming Lee, acting as administrator in the estate of Sing Hoy, now deceased, claimed from 0. Hoy, Chinese agent, of Auckland, the sum of £106 10/. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., was on the ■bench. Mr. S. Tong appeared for plaintiff and Mr. Munro for Hoy, the defendant. In amplification of the statement of claim, Mr. Tong said that when plaintiff's father was about to die, Ming Lee searched liis effects and found £106 10/ among other moneys. This amount was paid to defendant to keep, and was to be handed over when required. It was not unusual for deceased to place his money in the keeping of defendant, as deceased and defendant had been occupying the same premise? *Mr. Munro submitted, for the defence, that the money was handed over by plaintiff, on behalf of his father, to a pakapoo bank, a gambling institution with an illegal purpose, and that the money could not be claimed. The money was to be distributed to shareholders in the bank. Defendant gave evidence that he was a member of a pakapoo bank. After further evidence had been given, the magistrate reserved his decision.