GAMBLING IN WELLINGTON.
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 5
For many months tho police have suspected that a hazard school was being carried on in a gymnasium in the city. Last night at 11.30 they raided the place and arrested forty-six persons, some 42 of whom this morning pleaded guilty to being on premises kept as a common gaming house and each fined £3. John Fuller and Richard Eager were charged with keeping the gaming house and pleaded j not guilty. The hearing was adjourned.
The premises are said to have been safeguarded by an elaborate system of alarms, but the police overcame these and arrested all present.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7944, 6 October 1905, Page 2
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108GAMBLING IN WELLINGTON. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7944, 6 October 1905, Page 2
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