“A SIXPENNY TOUCH.”
IN A PAKAPOO SCHOOL
CHINAMAN FINED,
(IIY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, Lee. 20. v At the Magistrate’s Court to-day Stin Wing On was fined £4O, in default two months’ imprisonment, for keeping a .common gaming house in Taranaki street. .Six Europeans who were found on the premises were eaeli fined £3. The house was conducted as a pakapoo school. Counsel pleaded' that the Chinaman’s customers were not of a very high standing, and the place was what was generally known as “a sixpenny jtouch.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 7
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87“A SIXPENNY TOUCH.” Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 7
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