PAKAPOO TICKETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21314, 15 October 1932, Page 14

PAKAPOO TICKETS

t« SOLD FROM DOOR TO DOOR " CHARGES AGAINST CHINESE FINE OF £IOO IMPOSED f fy ■ " "There are eight banks a day drawn at this-place, and it has.come to my knowledge that they are going round Grey Lynn seljing pakapoo tickets from door to <!oor. That is the extent to which pakapoo has grown, in Auckland," said DetectiveSergeant Kelly in the Police Court yesterday when Joong Gung, aged 52, fruiterer, was charged with keeping premises at 91 Grey's Avenue as a common gaming house./ Accused was arrested with three other Chinese by detectives who raided the premises the previous day and seized a "quantity of pakapoo tickets and other material. When he pleaded guilty accused said that", on the previous Saturday he had stopped selling tickets and when the detecfcives arrived he was destroying all his betting material. Mr. Kelly said that when the detectives entered the shop accused was burning tickets at a fire, while a table was covered with pakapoo material. Acting-Detective Mills said that two tickets had been bought from accused on the day of his arrests : Has he been convicted before. asked-:Mr. F.- K. Hunt, S.M. . • V'Nof that is, not under this name," re-plied-Mr. Kelly. Accused was fined £IOO, in default three months' imprisonment, and was allowed 6even days in which to pay. -n. u • Three men who were charged with being unlawfully on premises used as a common gaming/ house, Sue Sun. aged 33, storeman, Ah Lim, aged 40, gardener and Low Cheuk King, aged 40, gardener, all pleaded not guilty. . , Acting-Detective Mahood said that when the police party visited the premises at 2.30 p.m. one of the accused was in an upstairs room, while Sue Sun walked in during the raid. When he realised that the police were there he attempted to rush out again. Both men had pakapoo tickets in their possession. The third man also came in while the raid was on. He had the results of the drawing of the 2 p.m. bank. All three were fined £2, or seven days imprisonment. . As the result of another raid at the same time Wong Wai, aged 30, gardentr, was charged with keeping premises at 95 Hobsori Street as a common gaming_ house. "The position of this man is different from the others," said Mr. Hall Skelton, ■who entered a plea of guilty. "He does not mix with the Chinese in Grey Street and is an outsider. He had £2O three months 'ago. and has steadily lost it. His highest bank was from 5s to 6s a day. He is in a very small way." The Magistrate: What do you know about him. Mr. Kelly ? Mr. Kelly: He is a "welsher." We have had complaints that white men have been taken down. These "scaling" propensities are being inculcated in the Chinese as much as white men now as the result of association. • Accused was fined £25, in default three months' imprisonment.^