HEAVY FINES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18898, 13 January 1927, Page 12

HEAVY FINES.

CHINESE GAMING-HOUSES. [THE PEESS Special Service] WELLINGTON, January 12. Two Chinese who admitted having kept common gaming-houses in Taranaki street were fined £SO each by Messrs G. Anyon and A. Lougmoorc, J.P.'s, in the Magistrate's Court to-day. They were Ngan Yuk, alias Ny Yok, aged 37, and Low Kum, aged -50. A penalty of £lO was imposed on Joo Chong, who admitted having kept a common gaming house in Haining street. Sub-Inspector Harvey stated that the accused had been arrested as the result of a raid which was carried out on the evening of December 22nd. Ngan Yuk had been before the Court for a similar offence on two previous occasions, and was fined £4O on April 14th last. Low Kum. who was also a third offender was fined £3O in May. Nothing was previously known against the other accused.

The Bench, in imposing the fines, said, it was impossible to take a lenient view of the cases. The men knew the law, and two of them had been previously fined. The default would bo fixed at three months' imprisonment in the case of Ngan Yuk and Low Kum, and at one month's imprisonment in the case of Joe Chong, and the thrco would be allowed one month in which to find the money.