GAMING RAID
CHINESE PREMISES
EIGHTEEN ARRESTS MADE
(By Telegrapfi—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 20. Detectives raided premises in Grey's Avenue and arrested eighteen Chinese. They were charged with breaches of the Gaming Act. , About four years ago two men rushed into the basement of the same premises, attacked the keeper, put out the lights, and decamped with money lying -on the table. Today detectives found the light switches enclosed in a locked box and gas jets were burn-: ihg as well as the electric lights. Two wire cages, also locked, held the "bank," proving that the Chinese had taken every precaution.
1 Some of the Chinese were sitting round two tables when the detectives entered and had considerable sums of money. One had £340, another £102, a third £80, a fourth £60, and several had sums ranging between £ 10 and £20. The police seized a quantity of betting material as well as the wire cages, the latter being screwed down to the tables. , . , At a sitting of a special court- the defendants were Temanded.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 7
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