PAKAPOO NUISANCE
FINE OF £60
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Following a police raid yesterday, Ah Tong . was today charged with . using, premises as a common gaming-house. The police said that they found paka- ] poo material, and a constable had previously : inarked pakapoo tickets there. Counsel said that tho defendant had been a market gardener, but had lost his position. His. wife had died and. he had to support two young children, i Although he was paying the unemployment levy he could get no relief work. Counsel urged that pakapoo was no worse than art unions. , I The Magistrate said that the pakapoo, houses were becoming a nuisance, and in future* the penalty would have to bo imprisonment. He fined the defendant, who was fined £50 a year ago, £60 in default three months' imprisonment. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 13
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136PAKAPOO NUISANCE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 13
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