£100 IN FINES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 75, 25 September 1937, Page 11

£100 IN FINES

PAKAPOO RAIDS

Fines totalling £104, with costs, for pakapoo offences were imposed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today upon five Chinese and five Europeans arrested during raids on three gaming houses in Taranaki Street, late yesterday afternoon.

Three Chinese pleaded guilty to keeping common gaming houses. George Gee, aged 66, chef, of 180 Taranaki Street, was fined £40 and costs; Ngan Yet, aged 60, of 127 Taranaki Street, was fined £30 and costs; and Sam Lee, aged 70, of 178 Taranaki Street, was fined £20 and costs. They were allowed until the end of the month to pay a substantial part of the fine.

Fines of £2 and costs for being in common gaming houses were imposed on George Frank Elliott, labourer, Frank McKenzie, labourer, Patrick Joseph O'Brien, a waterside worker, aged 55, Yip Ming, a gardener, aged 38, Frank Young, a' chef, aged 47, John Ernest Winter, a clerk, aged 21, and Sydney Holden, a motor trimmer, aged 37.

Sub-Inspector J. Dempsey, who prosecuted, said that a constable had attended at each of the three gaming houses and had purchased pakapoo tickets. Shortly before 4 p.m. yesterday the houses were visited.': The pakapoo materials produced had been obtained during the raid. Ngan Yet had been fined £40 in 1933 and £40 again in 1934 for keeping a gaming house. Sam Lee was convicted of keeping a gaming house in 1912, 1915, and 1924. In 1915 he was fined a total of £51 Bs, and in 1924 £40. Sam Lee was fined £10 in 1927.

Mr. H. Mitchell appeared for the Chinese.