ROOM RAIDED
OVER 30 MEN ARRESTED. ALLEGED TO BE GAMING HOUSE. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 12. Detectives raided a room on the fifth floor of Chatfield buildings, Customs street, at ten o’clock last night and arrested over 30 men who were later charged with being found in a common gaming house. It is stated that the police made their way upstairs and silenced the door keeper. They then rushed inside and surrounded a table at which a number of men were sitting and shaking a box of dice. Money and various apparatus was seized before those present realised the position. While an exhaustive search was in progress, one or two other men entered the room and were also arrested. One man was chargetl with keeping a common gaming house.
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Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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131ROOM RAIDED Southland Times, Issue 20202, 13 June 1927, Page 7
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