CHINESE FINED
GAMING HOUSE CHARGES,
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CHRISTCHURCH, July 18
On the Chinese gaming charges, convictions were recorded -against all 27 of the Chinese charged.
Yee Kwong "was lined £2O and costs for permitting the premises to be used as a common gaming house. One was .lined £2 fo r being unlawfully in a common gaming house. The others, on similar charges, were each fined £l.
When Kwong offered to give up opium smoking utensils to be destroyed, the charges relating to opium were withdrawn.
The Magistrate said .the evidence proved that, dominoes were being played for money. It was not for him, he continued, to say anything about the difference between One method of gambling and another. His duty was to administer the law as made by the Legislature.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1933, Page 3
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