SEQUEL TO RAID.
CHINESE ARRESTED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 20. Detectives raided premises in Grey’s Avenue and arrested 18 Chinese. They were charged with breaches of the Gaming Act. About four years ago two men rushed into the basement of the same premises; attacked the keeper, put out the lights, and decamped with money lying on the table. To-day detectives found the light switches enclosed in a locked box, and gas jets, were burning as well as the electric lights. Two wire cages, also locked, held the “bank,” proving that the Chinese had taken every precaution. Some of the Chinese were sitting round two tables when the detectives entered and had considerable sums of money. One had £340. another £lO2, a third £BO, a fourth £6O, and several had sums ranging between £lO and £2O. The polire seized a quantity of betting material as well as the wire cages, the latter being screwed down to the tables.
At a sitting of a special court, the defendants were remanded.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 21 December 1936, Page 9
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