FOUND IN GAMING HOUSE.
FINES AT WELLINGTON. CHINESE PAKAPOO . SCHOOL. [by. telegraph.— press association.] WELLINGTON*. Saturday. In the City Police Coun; to-day Sung Wing On was fined £40, ia default two months' imprisonment, for keeping a common gaming house in Taranaki Street. Six Europeans found on the premises were each fined £3. The house was conducted as a pakapoo school.
Counsel pleaded that the Chinaman's customers were not of very high standing, and that the place was what was generally known as the '* sixpenny touch."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 22 December 1924, Page 10
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