GAMING CHARGES.
BEQUEL TO POLICE RAID. CHINESE FINED £SO. AUCKLAND, Saturday. In the Police Court yesterday, Charlie Lee was charged with keeping premises at 55 Wellesley Street West as a common gaming house. Seven other men Ng Wah, Joseph Cunliffe, James O’Brien, Gilbert Howel, McWilliams, Joseph Bell, Patrick Walter Stepanlcic and Arthur Russell Sanders, were charged with being found without lawful exouse in a common gaming house. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that on Thursday two constables purchased pakapoo tickets at the house, and yesterday four more tickets were bought at 6d each. The police party executed a search warrant yesterday, and found Lee seated at a table examining pakapoo tickets anr! the other men marking them.
Ten banks were drawn at the house daily. Lee was fined £SO, in default threo months’ Imprisonment. Each of the other accused was fined £l.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18809, 3 December 1932, Page 7
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