PLAYING OF PAKAPOO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21979, 14 June 1933, Page 8

PLAYING OF PAKAPOO

POLICE RAID IN AUCKLAND CHINESE HEAVILY FINED. (Per. United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 13. Two Chinese and three Europeans who were arrested to-day as the result of a visit bv detectives to promises in Pitt street later appeared before Mr W. K. M'Kcan, S.M., in the Police Court charged with gaming offences. Wong Lam, a gardener, aged 40, pleaded guilty to a charge of using bis premises as a common gaining house. Pleas of guilty to charges of being unlawfully on the premises were entered by Ming look, aged 30, Benjamin Phillips, aged 30 V alter Clues, aged 50, and Thomas Purdy, aged 38 ' Detective Sergeant O’Sullivan said that pakapoo playing was found > Wong Lam was fined £SO, in default two months’ imprisonment, and the men found on the premises were fined 10s. in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. RAID IN WELLINGTON SIX MEN FINED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 13. Three Chinese, charged with keeping their premises as common gaming houses, were to-day fined £4O each by Mr E. 1 age, S.M., who remarked that four or five Chinese were before the court a tew weeks ago. Pakapoo operations seemed to have reached a fairly substantial proportion, and he thought substantial penalties would have to # bo imposed. Three other Chinese were fined £3 each for being found in common gaining houses.