TWO-UP SCHOOL RAIDED
FEILDING MEN PUNISHED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Feilding, Last Night. A police raid on a “two-up” school on February 19, was fully described before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., to-day. It was stated that the raid took place on a Sunday, the school being situated on the bank of the Oroua River, opposite to Johnston Park. Constables McCall and Pyke hid themselves in the vicinity at 6.30 a.m. and waited till 1.30 p.m., when the school began to assemble. They watched for an hour and then approached. They were only fifteen yards away when seen and the players bolted. Counsel for the defence alleged that the ringside was not visible from a public place, but the magistrate was satisfied from the police and other evidence that it was. All the accused, mostly freezing workers, Richard Benge, John Evans, E. H. Cullum, James Reddy, Thomas Fogarty, Francis Hefferman, John Hourigan, Richard Jones, -Leslie Kirkcaldie, Albert Larsen, John Mansfield and James Voyce, were each fined £3.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 April 1927, Page 9
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