£25 FINE IMPOSED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 121, 15 February 1935, Page 15

£25 FINE IMPOSED

Chinese Keeper of Gaming House Pleading guilty to permitting premises occupied by him to be used as a common gaming house, Lim Beng, laundryman, aged 32, was fined £25 by 'Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. The case followed upon the raid made on Wednesday afternoon by constables stationed at the Mount' Cook Police Station, when pakapoo material was seized. He was allowed a fortnight in which to pay the fine. Sub-Inspector (J. E. Roach said that Lim Beng had admitted to the raiding party that he was the keeper of the establishment. lie had previously been before the court on a charge relating to opium smoking. Accused had been carrying on the pakapoo business for only four weeks, prior to which he was engaged as a lauiidrymau, Mr. C. N. Armstrong, who appeared for Lim Beng, told the court. His pakapoo business had only been conducted in a small way. Pleading guilty to having been found on the premises without lawful excuse, Donald Stuart Fraser, aged 33, relief worker, was convicted and ordered to pay 10/- costs. Ngan Way, aged 37, and Ah Low, aged 34, both fruiterers, pleaded not guilty to having been found on the premises without lawful excuse, and were remanded until this morning.