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CHINESE GAMBLERS.
HEAVY FINES. (By, Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCK LAND, Wednesday. Sunday’s raid by detectives who visited the Nanking Cafe and Chop Simy shop in Grey street and arrested (it! Chinese on various charges, has swelled the Consolidated Fund to the extent of £3OO. Of the 06 arrested, 42 were dealt with on Monday morning, when £ll6 was levied in fines. The other 24 came before the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when the throe principals were each fined £SO, and 17 others found on the premises £2 each. This makes a total of '£3oo in fines, plus police expenses ordered to be paid. Fong Hung was charged with wilfully permitting the premises to be used as a common gaming house, and Ah W ing and Ah Lee with using the premises as a common gaming house. Mr Tong appeared for Fong Hung, who pleaded not guilty, and, also for Ah Wing, who pleaded guilty; Ah Lee also pleaded guilty. > Mr Tong admitted that Hung was the keeper of the house, also that fan tan and dominoes were games of chance, but not Mali Jong. Fong Hung was fined £SO, and Ah Wing a similar amount. Ah Lee also was fined £SO.
WAIRARAPA DAILY TIMES, 30 JUNE 1927 paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WDT19270630.2.33?items_per_page=100&page=2&query=chinese+cafe&snippet=true