CHINESE ARRESTED
CHARGES UNDER GAMING ACT (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) AUCKLAND. December 20. Detectives raided premises in Grey’s avenue, and IS Chinese they arrested have been charged with breaches of the Gaming Act. About four years ago two men rushed into the basement of these premises,’attacked the keeper, put out the lights, and decamped with money which was lying on a table. To-day the detectives found the light switches enclosed in a locked box, gas jets were burning as well as electric lights, and two wire cages, also locked, held the “bank.” to prove that the Chinese had taken every precaution. Some of the Chinese sitting round the two tables when the detectives entered had considerable sums of money on them. One had £340, another £lO2, a third £BO. a fourth £6O, and several had sums ranging between £lO and £2O. The police seized a quantity of betting material as well as the wire cages, the latter being screwed down to the tables. At a special sitting of the court the defendants were remanded.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21971, 21 December 1936, Page 8
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