CHINESE FINED £lO
GAMING HOUSE CHARGE [BY TELEGRAPH —TJtESS ASSOCIATION] ■ j' DUNEDIN, Thursday For using his premises as a common gaming house, a Chinese, Charlie Weng, was fined £lO and costs to-day, and six others found on the premises were fined £1 each and costs. Counsel said a "bank" was boing conducted to help the Chinese unemployed. The magistrate remarked that pakapoo was very similar to an art union, where the draw depended on certain numbers. It was very different from fan tan or dice playing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21495, 19 May 1933, Page 12
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86CHINESE FINED £10 New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21495, 19 May 1933, Page 12
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