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Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 10

Several houses in Haining street, in which it was suspected pakapoo tickets were being sold, were raided by the police yesterday, and ten Chinese and seven Europeans appeared in the court to-day to answer charges of keeping common gaming houses, or with being found on such premises. Six of the Chinese pleaded guilty to keeping the premises for the sale of pakapoo tickets, and were each fined £lO, in default a month’s imprisonment. Lo Kum, however, who had three previous convictions, was fined £SO, in default three months’ imprisonment. Six Europeans wore eacli fined £2 on their own admission of being on gaining premises illegally, but Frederick Williams, aged sixty-four, who chose to go into the witness box was fined £5. One Chinese got o(F with a £5 fine, although the magistrate said lie narrowly escaped a conviction for assisting to keep the place.—Wellington J’ress Association telegram.