INFORMATIONS DISMISSED
RAID ON LAUNDRY PREMISES
(By Telegraph—Press Association) GISBORNE, This Day. Arising out of a raid on laundry premises on Christmas night: one Chinese was charged at the Police Court with keeping a common gaming house, and 16 others for being found in a gaining house. The evidence disclosed that the Chinese had been playing dominoes and mab-jong for money ; but the Magistrate held thesp games did not come within the scope of the section of the Gaming Act in question. The informations were dismissed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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86INFORMATIONS DISMISSED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 7 January 1931, Page 5
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