ALLEGES GAMING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 August 1926, Page 5

ALLEGES GAMING.

FORTY CHINESE ARRESTED. In Wellington at 9.45 o’clock last night, Sergeant Boniseli, ■of Mount Cook police.sta.tion^,an i d.:ilyc,jbp}i&ta:bles, raided a house in Hnjniffg street anil arrested about forty Chinese on charges of breaches .of the Gaming Act. The Chinese, were marched in batches up to the Mount Cook Police Station, where arrangements were in hand at a late hour last night to let tllie arrested men out oil bail. It appears that the police had suspicions that the premises in question were being used for gambling. Lest evening Sergeant -Boniseli and his posse walked down to 'the suspected place, and opening the door, which was unlocked, walked in amongst the Chinese. It is alleged that they were caught playing fan-tan. The raid was carried out quietly, and -very few people in the vicinity were aware of anything unusual taking place. The forty Chinese filled the Mount -Cook police station office, and the overflow was kept in the policemen’s billiard room until the congestion was relieved by the release of several on bail. 29 CHINESE FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following the raid last night on a I-laining street house, '2B Chinese today were each fined £2 for having been found in a common gaming house. Another, who had been previously convicted, was fined £3. Charges of keeping the house, and assisting, against three Chinese, were adjourned for a week, accused being admitted to a £SO bail.