"TWO-UP" SCHOOLS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 25, 31 January 1911, Page 3

"TWO-UP" SCHOOLS.

[BS ISLERHAPII — SPECIAL TO THE POSr."| PALMERSTON N., This Day. There have been many complaints that "tv/o-up" schools are rife among flaxmill employees in the Manawatu district, but the delinquents are very hard to run to earth. At the Magistrate's Court yesterday, W. Hinchcliife, G. Jensen. G. Abraham, and A. Thompson were charged v/kh playing a game of chance in a Shannon street on Christmas Eve. Constable Essen stated that on the day mentioned he noticed a group of men in Vance-street, Shannon, tossing coins. Witness hid behind 'a fence about eight or ten paces away. Thompson, took two pennies in his hand and called out, "I'll bet a shilling,. Let them go !" One Percy Bennett appeared to be the stakeholder. The tossing | went on a time. Witness accosted j accused, and charged them with playing "two-up," but they denied this. The charges^ against Jensen, Abraham, and Hinchcliffc were dismissed. Thompson, however, admitted in evidence that lie had tossed two pennies wiib a view to ascertaining who should shout the next lot of di-iuks. lie" was convicted, and fined £5 and costs (17sJ.