PREMISES RAIDED.
FINES IMPOSED.
Per Press Association. AVELLINGTON, Oct. 5. Fines totalling £791 were imposed by Mr E. Page, S.M., t.o-day on the men arrested in yesterday’s pakapoo raid. On a charge of keeping a common gaming house fifteen Chinese were each fined £SO, in default three months’ imprisonment. Several Chinese, found without lawful excuse in a common gaming house, were each fined £3, and a number of Europeans on a similar charge were fined £1 each. Sergeant Scott mentioned that the men’s wives had complained bitterly that money was going to pakapoo instead of the home. As an indication of the extent of the pakapoo business, lie added that during the fortnight that some of the pakapoo houses were closed down following police action hotel takings in the neighbourhood had risen by £2O.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 2
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134PREMISES RAIDED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 265, 6 October 1933, Page 2
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