COMMON GAMING HOUSES
WELLINGTON CHINESE FINED. By Telegraph.—Preus A-uoclatlon. Wellington, Last Night. Further prosecutions in connection with the police raid on the Chinese gaming premises were conducted in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Wee Kee Fan, aged 34, Hedley Lews, aged 30, Low Bung, aged 71, and Sam Chong, aged 40, all pleaded guilty to keeping common gaming-houses. Fan and Bung were each fined £2O, in default three months in gaol. Lews and Chong wm each fined £lO, in default six weeks ia gaol. Another raid was conducted to-day in the Chinese quarters. George Chipperfield, aged 34, James Kavanagh, aged 48, and William John Baker, aged 52, pleaded guilty to being found in a common gaming-house and were each fined £2 and costs. The fourth man, a Chinese, alleged to be the keeper of the house, will appear to-morrow.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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