RAID ON GAMBLING DEN
SIX MEN SENT TO PRISON, FANTAN .AND PAKAPOO PLAYED, f By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 12. After two detectives had made a. preliminary inspection a squad of detectives raided the basement of a house in Grey s Avenue on Saturday night and ed 15 men, mostly Europeans. To-day the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, sent six to gaol for a month, it being proved that they had previous convictions. A Chinese, aged over 70. who sublet thqbasement, was fined £2O for keeping a common gaming house. t Police witnesses said that fantan and oakapoo were being played. <
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1931, Page 4
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