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THE ALLEGED PRINCIPALS. Ah Noon, Ah Cher and Ah Ngin, who were found in a house in Wakefieldstreet when it was raided on a Sunday recently by the police, when gambling was in progress, were each fined £1 and costs at the Police Court this afternoiln.
Yong Ilee, who was not found in the place when the raid was made, was charged that, being the occupier of the house, he knowingly permitted it to be used as a gaming house. He stated that on Ist March last he sold hia lease of the premises to Ting Hing, getting £G 10/ a month. lie kept and occupied now a. fruit shop in Queenstreet, and he received nothing more from Ting Hing, in respect to the Wakeiield house, than the £6 10/, which was wliat he himself had to pay fox it. Hβ got illT 10/ from. Hing for the sublease in March.
to Sub-Inspector Hendxey, witness said lie used to keep the pJucG 0.3 sl ■boo-rdin.sr-lioTisc aucl used to make from 10/ to £2 a week out of it. Ho did not give dinners of roast diiek, fowl and turkey, and didn't put brandy on the tables. He did not own three out of four shares in the gambling house, and did not sell a Chinese named Wing Sang one of the shares. He knew Shanlg Quong, who was commonly known as the pirate," but that man did not act for -witness as agejit to seli pakapoo tickets. Witness denied knowing that a man named Wang, who came •from Paeroa, and was on his way to China, lost 160 in the gamVßa? house over two months ago. He aUo denied knowing; that Loi Sung was taken down for £90 in the house,. that Lum Wah got drunk nnd was robbed there, ifone of his own people had complained to him about keeping the gambling house. (Proceeding.)
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19120522.2.13&srpos=1&e=-------10--1----0ah+lum+chinese+fruit+shop-- CHINESE GAMBLING HOUSE.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 122, 22 May 1912, Page 2