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European Bank OPERATED AT AUCKLAND. (■Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, February 17. Fines totalling £145 were imposed on 37 of the 40 men who appeared before Mr Hunt S.M. in the Police Court on gaming charges, brought forward as the result of a raid by defectives on premises in Street. Raymond Lewis, said by Chief Detective Hammond to have been the operator of a pak-a-poo bank, was fined £5O. One of his assistants was fined £25. ''This is the first time in my experience that a European has been charged with operating a pa-a-poo bank,” Mr Haffimond“said. The gamo is being conducted on a very large scale in Auckland and has caught on with a certain tyoe. Lewis had been in court previously for bookmaking.
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Grey River Argus, 18 February 1932, Page 5
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