PAKAPOO DENS
RUN BY SYNDICATES. AN AGENT FINED. AUCKLAND, Tuesday. “The worst feature of these pakapoo cases is that we have been receiving letters from the wives of relief workers, complaining that their husbands have been losing money in these dens. Quite recently a boy of fifteen was found in a pakapoo gambling house,” said De-tective-Sergeant O’Sullivan, when prosecuting Louey Wong, aged 34, in the S.M. Court to-day. The police said that the accused was an agent. Mr W. R. McKean said: These men always seem to be agents. Is it not possible to bring the principals to .court? Mr O’Sullivan said it was very difficult; if one agent was caught another was put in his place. The Magistrate said that pakapoo dens were run by syndicates, and lie had heard something of arrangements about fines. If the Chinese would keep the games to themselves then there would be no need to impose the heavy penalties, but they did not. The accused was fined £7O, in default three months’ imprisonment, and was refused time to pay. Counsel for the accused protested that another Magistrate yesterday had imposed a fine of £lO on a similar charge.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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