SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 62, 11 September 1945, Page 5

SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY

Sixty members attended the Wellington Shakespeare Society's September meeting. Dr. \V. Marshall Macdonald presided, and the Very Rev. C. Boynzoglu, Greek archimandrite, was present by invitation. "King Henry Hie Fifth" was read, anS several new members were tried out with satisfaction to die audience. Mr. F. M. Coiflerry \va.s 1111 excellent King Henry the Fifth and Mrs. I. Jeffries played Katharine. The prologue, epilogue and reading production were capably done by Mrs. Clarice Ross, and she was followed in the chorus acts by Mcsdiimes ,T. >S. Wilson, rauline Burgess and Misses Mary Annette Kurpess and Catherine Forde. Other members who read parts were Mesdames X. Cruttcnden. C. 0. Bloore, J. K. Kdic, I). A. Herbert, Misses It. H. Rellly, Y. H. Heath, and Rose Carte, Messrs. I). A. Herbert, J. Holly, J. V. N'ieoll, C. G. Bloore, H. E. Herring. F. h. Pnrliin, E. C. Feltham and F. C. Pears. Mrs. J. K. Kdic read the stage dl'rectlons and Mr. E. W. Cl. Coleridge moved a vote of thanks. , '

ADVANTAGES OF PAKAPOO He had been told that such activities kept Chinese off social security funds, said Mr. G. Kent, when making a plea in the Magistrate's Court yesterday on behalf of Ah Lym, gardener, 49, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge that, being the occupier of premises at 182 Taranaki Street, he kept and used ! them as a common gaming-house. Not all Chinese could be market gardeners or fruiterers, and provision would have to be made for some of them if it were not for pakapoo gambling. Mr. Kent stated that pakapoo gambling was largely confined to members of their own race; those few Europeans who took part were born gamblers anyway. The Chinese did not use telephones and ran their games with scrupulous • honesty.

Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., commented that it was the accused's fourth offence, and said: "I'll have to make it £100."

Two men who pleaded guilty to being unlawfully on the same premises when it was visited by the police on the evening of September 1 were each fined £5. Sub-Inspector J. Abel stated that when the police arrived Ah Lym was sitting at a table on which were a number of pakapoo tickets. The two others present, John Patrick Hogan, tailor, 69, and Victor Walsh, 65, had no excuse to offer for being there.