NINETEEN ARRESTS.
SUCCESSFUL POLICE RAID
VARIOUS CHARGES LAID.
ALLEGED DISORDERLY HOUSE.
Seventeen men and two women will appear at the Police Court this morning on various charges, ranging from keeping a house of, and residing in a house of, illfame, to vagrancy. The accused were arrested last night as the result of a raid by the police on an establishment in VIC toria Street, ostensibly conducted as a boardinghouse. Plainclothes-Constables Potter and Clifford have had the house under observation for some time, and at eleven o'clock last night, accompanied ' by Sergeants Lander and Brown, with six uniformed constables, they entered the premises. The police arrangements were so effective that the occupants were completely taken by surprise, and submitted quietly to arrest. Five, motor-cars were requisitioned to convey the arrestees to the police station, where" they were lodged in the cells for the night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16375, 1 November 1916, Page 8
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