THE ANTI-GAMBLING MOVEMENT.
(SF-CI-- TO " TH_ PRKSS.") DUNEDIN, September 18. Two newly-sworn-in constables recently visited the premises of two Chinese, and thero purchased tickets in a lottery known as pakapoo. As a result the two Celestials wero charged this morning with selling a ticket i_ a lottery, and were each fined £100 and costs." Ono of them, who hnd previously been lined a simifaT sum two years ago, receive- in addition three months' imprisonment. The Magistrate characterised the offences as very serious ones. It was not like gambling in private, as at a game of bridge or anything of -that kind, but it was systematise- gambling for the enticement of all who flocked to the place. It was not like a poor Chinaman having an innocent game with his friends; it was keeping a "holF for all and sundry. Tho Chinese missionaries complained of tho gamo as having a demoralising influence.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12602, 19 September 1906, Page 2
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