LOST AT PAKAPOO
BELIEF WORKERS' MONEY Ml ■ CHINESE FINED £7O (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. “The worst feature of these pakapoo cases ia that been receiving letters from the of relief workers complaining that their husbands have been losing money in these dpns. Quite recently.* boy of 15 years was found in a pakapoo gambling house,” said Detective Sergeant O’Sullivan, when prosecuting Louey Wong, 34, in the Police Court. CThe police said the accused was an agent. The magistrate, Mr. R. W. McKean: These men always seem to be agents. Is it .not possible to bring the principals to court! fv ... .. v Detective O’Sullivan said it was very difficult; If one agent was caught, another was put in his place. The magistrate said pakapoo dens were run by syndicates, and he had heard something of arrangements about fines. If the. |&inese would keep the game to themselves, there would be no need to impose heavy penalties, but they didtnot. He fined the accused £7O, or three months’j gaol, and refused him time to pay-.'. Counsel for the accused protested that another magistrate yesterday had imposed a fine of £lO on a similar charge.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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194LOST AT PAKAPOO Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18203, 26 September 1933, Page 9
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