PAKAPOO
A £7O FINE. (Per Press Association — copyright > AUCKLAND, September 26. “The worst feature of these pakapoo cases is we have been receiving letters from wives of relief workers, complaining that their husbands have been losing money in these dens. Quite recently a boy of lo was found in a pakapoo gambling house,” said Detec-tive-Sergeant O’Sullivan, when prosecuting Louey Wong, 34, in the Police Court. The police said that accused was an agent. Magistrate McKean: These men alivays seem to be agents. Is it not possible to bring the principals to Court? Detective O’Sullivan said it rvns very difficult. If one agent was* caught, another was put in his place, The Magistrate said that pakapoo dens were run by syndicates, and he had heard something of arrangements about fines. If the Chinese would keep the games to themselves, then we would have no need to impose heavy penalties, hut they did not. He fined, the accused £7O, or three months’ imnrisonment, and refused him time to pay. Counsel for accused protested that another Magistrate, yesterday had imposed a fine of £lO on a similar charge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1933, Page 5
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