CHINESE FINED £25

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 120, 14 February 1940, Page 7

CHINESE FINED £25

Pakapoo Tickets Sold To Constable A police raid on the premises of a Chinese, Ah Lee, in Taranaki Street, on Saturday night had its’ sequel in Hie Magistrates’’ Court. Wellington, when Lee was fined £25 by Mr, Stout, S.M., Lee admitted a charge of keeping a common gaming house. Three other Chinese. Jim Low, produce merchant, aged 52. Joe Wong. laundrynian, aged 14, and Korn Woon, gardener, aged 39, and two Europeans, Bernard Tier, labourer, aged 67, and John Burns Tanner, labourer, aged 54, pleaded guilty to being found on the premises and a fine of £2 was imposed in each case. The premises occupied by Ah Lee came under the notice of the police in January, said Sub-inspector E. T. C. Turner, who prosecuted. A constable on special duty called there on several occasions between January 8 and Eebruary 9 and purchased pakapoo tickets. Europeans and Chinese frequented the place and the constable, who was in plain clothes, saw Ah Lee sell pakopoo tickets to other men. The premises were raided at 5.55 p.m. hist Saturday, and accused and five others wore arrested. It. was stall’d on behalf of Ah Lee that, he had been in New Zealand for 30 years and had not previously been before the Colt fl.