PLAYING “TWO UP”
POLICE RAID ALLEGED SCHOOL AT WHAKATAKE. **reas Association. WHAKATANB, .May 5. A raid on an alleged “two-up” school at the freezing works across tho Whakntnno River was made by Detective J. Cooney, Constables T. J. Cummings. R. H. Greenslade, and Kccpa yesterday. Operations begun on tire eastern sido of the men's quarters or barracks. Two of the raiding party debouched at each end of the barracks, but a stampede had .already commenced. Three men ran headlong into Cummings, and the others scattered across the barb-wire fencing through the standing maize into the swamp and elsewhere, where they are hiding. The gathering was estimated at about 50 persons, and included Maoris. It is understood that the police took several names and also secured the money abandoned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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128PLAYING “TWO UP” New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10272, 6 May 1919, Page 4
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