GAMBLING IN FIJI
PAK-A-PU FLUTTERS. SUVA, January 6. Fiji is a regular hot-bed of gambling (says the “Star” correspondent). It is reminiscent of what is known as “the good old.days” to see Suva gambling with a feverish abandon, which quite rivals the stories one hears of the “Wild and AVoolly West.” The Indians gamble all day and every day. In nearly every Indian homo gambling is openly carried on. Now the Chinese have become so bold in carrying pak-a-pu that every European boy and girl in town has a “flutter.” One boy who gets 10s per week as wages acknowledged that he spent 9s a week on pak-a-pu and Is on cigarettes. As a contrast last week a church function which advertised a chocolato wheel as an attraction, was notified by the police that 6uch “an infraction of the law” could not be allowed.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11422, 19 January 1923, Page 3
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