POLICE RAID
ON ALLEGED GAMING HOUSE. NUMBER OF MEN FINED. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, This Day. Following a raid on an alleged gaming house in Dixon Street where the police found, according to DetectiveSergeant Doyle, a billiard table fitted up for the purpose of playing and gambling, a rubber dice shaker with dice and also cards and a croupier’s stick and other paraphernalia, some 30 men appeared in the S.M. Court this morning mostly charged with having been on the premises. The bulk of them were fined £2 and costs, but several with previous convictions were fined £5 and costs and one £3 10s. A charge against the alleged occupier of the premises and the alleged assistant will be brought on May 30.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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