PAKAPOO TICKETS
“SOLD FROM DOOR. TO DOOR.”
CASE AGAINST CHINESE.
AUCKLAND, October 15,
“There are eight banks a day drawn at this place, and it has come to my knowledge that they are going round Grey Lynn selling pakapoo tickets from door to door. That is the extent to which pakapoo has grown in Auckland,” said Detective-r Sergeant Kelly in the Auckland Police Court, when Joong Gung, aged 52, fruiterer, was charged with keeping premises at 91 Grey’s Avenue as a common gaming house. Accused was arrested with three other Chinese by detectives who raided the premises the previous day and seized a quantity: of pakapoo tickets and other material.
When lie pleaded guilty accused said that on the previous he had stopped selling tickets, and when the detectives arrived he was destroying all his betting material. Mr Kelly said that .when, the detectives entered the shop accused was burning tickets at a fire, while a table was covered with pakapoo material. Actjng-Petectivo Mills said' that two tickets had been bought from accused on the day of his arrest. “Has he been convicted before?” asked Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M.
“No; that is, not under this name,” replied Mr Kelly. Accused wnis (fined £IOO, in default tnree months’ imprisonment, and was allowed seven days in which to pay.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19321019.2.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
218PAKAPOO TICKETS Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in