OPIUM SEIZED.
Biggest "Cargo" For Years Found On Ship. INGENIOUS- HIDING PLACE. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Two hundred and seventy-six tins oi opium, valued at about £3000, were discovered by Customs officers in a secret clipboard aboard the steamer Tanda, lvlne at Woolloomooloo Bay. The illegal cargo, which was concealed m a concrete bed in a linen chest, as one ot the largest hauls for many years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 7
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69OPIUM SEIZED. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 7
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