LURE OF PAKAPOO

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12252, 6 April 1935, Page 7

LURE OF PAKAPOO

POLICE 1 RAID DENS. •; SEVEN CHINESE. PINED £197. (Pres* Aw<w* , '<u!: -1 ' AUCKLAND; April 5. fines totalling £197 were imposed ly Mr P- K.‘ Hunt S.M., in the Police Court upon seven Chinese who were arrested Hone with 34 Europeans in four simultaneous raids by the police last Friday. , goiuo interesting submissions concerning gambling by taking part in a game of pakapoo "Were made by Mi 1 ■\Vcst and Mr Tong, who appeared for the accused. Ming Lai, who pleaded guilty- to & charge of using- premises: at . Grey avenue as a common gaming house, was fined £2-5,. oir two months’ imprisonment, while Youg Yim, who denied a charge of assisting in the management was fined £2. S For using premises at Grey avenue as a common gaming honse Kufig Yum was fined £25 or two months’ imprisonment. Ah Tong pleaded not guilty to a charge of assisting, lie was fined £lO. Wong Hum ail’d Wong Chong were charged respectively with keeping and assisting in a common gaining house at Hobson street. Woim Hum, in view of his previous record was fined £IOO qv three months' gaol while the magistrate fined Wong Chong £lO. Chong Jack Kow pleaded guilty to « charge of using premises at' Pitt street as a common gaming house and was fined :£25, or two months* imprisonment. “The Crown cannot say that there is any moral'wrong in pakapoo.” s aid Mr West when speaking for a client who had denied the charge. The Government has a. monopoly in the conduct of gambling, and these Chinese by wlmt they are doinii do not in any way affect it. After all, the sunt expended in pakapoo m only 6d per ticket.” Mr Hunt: The trouble is that the wives'of relief "workers complain that their husbands spend their money af the garnet X Mr Tong said that so long as there was such a game as pakapoo these offences would continue. There was the paradox between that form of gambling and legitimate gambling. Only recently two leading newspapers advocated reform in gambling. 'Mr. Hunt: But no one advocates the running of gambling houses. Sub-Inspector Scott drew attention to the fact that pakapoo tickets were being sol L ] in hotel bars and on the wharves. He added that 6d was nor always the price of a ticket.