THE GAME OF PAK-A-POO

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 159, 31 March 1919, Page 8

THE GAME OF PAK-A-POO

RAID ON HAINING STREET. ' Police activity in Haining Street .-and vicinity is again being manifested, tho location and suppression of gambling dens being the particular object of tho police. As the result of a raid nyulo on Friday night, a number of China-, men figured m the Magistrate s Court on Saturday morning on charges connected with tho keeping of alleged gaming, houses. Several other Celestials and'soma Europeans wero also accused of being found on the premises. Wong Lee Hang was charged with occupying premises in 48 Haining Street, which were used as, a common gaming house, and with ' selling a, pak-a-poo ticket to Oswald ' George Tnompson, Similar charges wero prelcrred against Young Joe in respect to 50 Hainins Street;' Low Tong, 141 Taranaki Street; and Low Long, its Haining Street. v Frederick AuUiams was charged with having beon found in 50 Haining Street; John Anderson, i'rank Hanson, Joseph Neville. Bell, William Douglas, Young Kec, Low Y'ing, Wee Chong,-and Walter Dange were stated to have been caught in lil Taranaki Street; Charles Porter, Carl' William Gustafson, and Walter A.ustin, with having been found in id Haining Street;, ,and George James Welch and Walter'Stuckey with having been apprehended in 46 Haining Street. Mr. Jl.. P. O'Leary appeared for the Chinese, who were remanded until Thursday. ;. Williams .said ho visited SO Hainiug Street not for the purposes of gambling, but in order to get some pigeons. Acting-Subluspector Emerson said tho accused was found with' u pak-a-poo ticket in his hand. Williams was remanded until Thursday-" The remaining ten Europeans pleaded guilty, and were each lined £3, with the alternative- of *14 days' imprisonment. Bell said lie did, not understand pak-a-poo. He had merely gone to 141 Taranaki Street, for the purpose of trying to win some money for tlio benefit of his children. "1 think, you will find you will spend a jolly sight more than you will make this way," said Mr. Frazer. Bell stated that ho' had marked two pickets, and Said he understood he was to received £2 or ,J:3 for having.struck' a. "7." 5 "You just about, made the amount of, your fine, so you came out square," remarked Mr. 'Frazer.