CHINESE PAK-A-POO DEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22069, 27 September 1933, Page 10

CHINESE PAK-A-POO DEN

RELIEF WORKERS PARTICIPATE FINE OF £7O IMPOSED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 26. “ The worst feature of these pak-a-poo eases is that wo have been receiving letters from the wives of relief workers complaining that their husbands have been losing money in these dens. Quite recently a boy of 15 ■ was found a-pak-a-poo gambling house,” said Detective Sergeant O’Sullivan, when prosecuting Loucy Wong, aged 34, in the Police Court. The police said that the accused was an agent. The 1 magistrate (Mr W. R. M’Kcan) : These men always seem to be an agent. Is it not possible to bring the principals to court?

Detective O’Sullivan said it was very difficult. If one agent was caught another was put in his place. The magistrate said that pak-a-poo dons were run by syndicates, and he bad hoard something of arrangements about fines. If the Chinese would keep the game to themselves there would be no need to impose heavy penalties, but they did not. He fined the accused £7O or three months’ imprisonment, and refused him time to pay. Counsel for the accused protested, and said that another magistrate on the previous day had imposed a fine of £lO on a similar charge..