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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4465, 11 September 1922, Page 4

Details of the recent police raids on gambling schools in Brisbane show that the “Terriers’ Club” and Ci.ty Tattersail’s were visited, and 72 men wete arrested. One man was killed by striking a verandah when he jumped from a window. He fell 45ft to a concrete yard, and his neck was broken. In the Police Court Patrick J. Smithwick (43) and Henry Marsden (30), tlhe principals, were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and two months’ imprisonment respectively, tli.e Magistrate stating that he had given a previous warning that fines would be dispensed with. Of 66 men charged 16 appeared and were fined £2 each, and 49 who did not appear had their watch-house bail of £3 estreated in each case.

I The watersiders at Bluff were ' chuckling to themselves last week ' (says the “Southland News”), to the ' discomfiture of another of their fraI ternity. It happened that the object of their mirth—we will call him Harry—signed on with a gang co work a vessel. Harry had not worked very long before he felt indisposed, J probably as the result of too much jollification, and adjourned to one of the bolds, where he was soon in ths arms of Morpheus. . At 10 o’clock the shift went ashore, and the holds were battened down for the night. Inquiries were made for the missing Harry, and his mates turned towards home thinking that ibe had Ipft the ship hours before. Pea'ce and quietness reigned shortly after, and only the tramp of the officer on watch as he walked the deck .was heard. Suddenly the stillness of! the early hours of the morning was broken by a cry for assistance, and the surprise of the officer can well be imagined when he saw a face peering at him, from under the covering on a hatch. It was tihe missing Harry, who had tired of his unusual bed, and had managed to lift a board from the hold, bur could get no further. Needless to say the officer quickly extricated him from his predicament, and now Harry is wondering .why so many grinning faces could be seen on the wharf for days after.