PAKAPOO RAID

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 104, 3 May 1926, Page 10

PAKAPOO RAID

CHINAMAN FINED £30.

A number of pakapoo tickets was found when Constable Harvey executed a search warrant on premises at the rear of 143, Taranaki street, on Saturday afternoon. The occupier of the place, Low Kuni, a Chinaman, aged 44, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court today to a charge of being the keeper of a common gaming-house. "He was convicted and iined in 1923 for a similar offence," said Sub-Inspec-tor Harvey, in outlining the facts of tho case. Mr. H. F. O'Lcary's defence was that Low Kum, after serving imprisonment for tho offence in 1923, had gone to tho Wairarapa as a fruiterer. His health, however, had broken down, and, having no other means of livelihood, he had gradually drifted into running a pakapoo business. The accused was fined £30, in default two months'imprisonment. Ngan.Jim (44) admitted having been found in the gaming-house, but denied that he was there for any illegal purpose. "I went in for a friendly chat with Kum," he said, speaking through an interpreter. In answer to a question by .He Magistrate (Mr. W. G. Riddoll, S.M.), he admitted that he knew pakapoo tickets were being sold. The Magistrate held that there was rifficiont evidence to convict, and fined the accused £2, in default seven days' imprisonment.