GAMBLING INCREASE
PAK-A-POO FIHES
STATE'S BAD EXAMPLE
{Teb Dotted Peess Association.!
WFJjLINGTON, January 8. A Police raid in Haimng and. 1W nalri streets yesterday resulted m the arrest ot tivo Clinime dmrgcd with The police said that pak-arpoo was rocreasing, and getting a big hold on Europeans. , , , • Afr Mazengarb, for tho defence, sard that in view of other forms of unlawful "ambling connived at by the- btate, there was nothing alarming m.tbe increase of pak-a-poo. Big lotteries were allowed by people in high places t/noso duty it was to enforce the law, übo gaining law’s needed amendment before respect could bo expected from tho Chi nose community. , , 0 „ Four Chinese keepers were fmed and the other £4O; and fines of £2 were imposed on those found on the premises.
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Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 6
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129GAMBLING INCREASE Evening Star, Issue 19142, 8 January 1926, Page 6
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