HAINING STREET RAID.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 218, 8 June 1908, Page 7

HAINING STREET RAID.

-—-- . ALLEGED GAMING TWELVE . EUROPEANS AND 1W CHINAMEN ARRESTED. - 'Pak-a-poo 1 ' is ono of the most fascinating and sufic.eii.sful of gambling devices that has been jntrc'liiced to Now Zealand from the Jlowery Land.r It is so extremely simple that the simptesfc people can and do indulge in it to an extent never dreamed of amongst those whoso inclinations - and environment have never .led them to seek excitement in marking' tickets covered with Chinese hieroglyphics,. For .many- years this innocent deviw'has t boen a favourite gamble in Wellington';- and "pak-a-poo" has made considerable caljs upon the time of those occupying tho .splits or justice.' By/the drastic Gaming and Lotteries Act of/ session, however, a dead set was made/'at. this form of gambling by making the' person who ran a lottery (pak-a-poo is a -lottery) a. keeper of a common gaming houss; and so liable to arrest. The clause of the Act was put in operation at 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, when Sergeants Dart and Rutledge and Detectivo' Kcrnp made a descent upon Nas. 9 and " Haining Street. At the- first-mentioned premises Ah Wco was arrested on'the charge of being the kcopcr of a common gaming house, and five F.uropeann wore apprehended on the charge of being found in a common gaming house.'-At No. Ah Joe and seven Europeans wore arretted on similar charges to those set out above. Those arrested were brought before Mr. Lambert. J.P., at the Mount Cook Police Court, and were remanded to appear beforo the Stipendiary ■ Magistrate this morning. All wero bailed out.