RAID BY POLICE
A SUDDEN DESCENT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Three car-loads of police and detectives- suddenly arrived at about noon today at a piece of reclaimed ground on^the waterfront, and the occupants, leaping out, sprinted towards a group of about thirty or forty men. j The men were seated on poles arranged in the form of a rectangle. A scout gave the. alarm and the group immediately scattered. The police had to run hard and tackle low, but about fifteen of the men were detained and their names and addresses taken. Others escaped through neighbouring premises. Workers in adjacent buildings cheered the chase. It is understood that some of the men detained admitted that they had been playing two-up and that in the "ring" the police found a leather dicebox and a number of dice, the latter marked with spots and squares to indicate heads and tails.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 8
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150RAID BY POLICE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 8
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