PAK-A-POO HOUSE RAIDED
CHINESE FINED £6O. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 5. Following a police raid yesterday, All Tong was charged with using his premises as a common gaming house. The police said they found pak-a-poo material, and a constable had previously marked pak-a-poo tickets there. Counsel said the defendant had been a market gardener, but he had lost his position. His wife had died, and he had to support two young children. Although he was paying the unemployment levy, he could get no relief work. Counsel urged that pak-a-poo was no worse than art unions. The magistrate said that pak-a-poo houses were becoming a nuisance, and in future the penalty would have to be imprisonment. He fined the defendant (who had been fined £SO a year ago) £OO, or three months’ imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 8
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