"DREADFUL SIGHT"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 9

"DREADFUL SIGHT"

^Press Association.)

Young Womien Drunk in Gambling-Pen ■ GIRL OF 15 AMONG THEM

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Last Night. "The police axe doing their best to put a stop to places which bring young women down to the lowest level. Gambling dens seein to be springing up in Auckland and are really a curse," said Detective-Sergeant McHugh, in the Police Court this moruing when charges were brou'ght against seven young women and 29 men arrested in a, police raid last night on alleged gamingbouse premises. "We found a girl aged 15 in a drunken condition outside the premises, and. she will later appear before the Children's Court," Mr MeHugh added. He described the difficulty experienced- by the police in entering the barricaded premises, stating that electric bells were used. The police not only alleged that the place was a gambling den but also that. sly grog was sold in large quantities. He said that the majority of young women on the premises were under the influence of liquor. "It was a dreadful sifght to see them with men in these premises," Mr McHugh added. John Sydney Cormack, charged that, being the occupier of premises in Kingston street, he conducted them as a common gaming house, was remanded, on the application of the police, for a week. Bail of £100 was granted. A gii l who was caught in a raid last week was fined £2. Six others were fined £1 each. Twenty-eight men were ordered to pay fines ranging from £2 to £3,