CHINESE FINED £75.
AN OPIUM ADDICT. (r&CUS »SSOCXiTIO* TCLXGSUI.) • AUCKLAND, March 7. Ah > Chung, aged 38, a laundryman, was -fined £75 for "using' the premises j by him for opium- smoking, i The - premises- were -those'which the police on raiding found great difficulty ' in ■ entering. Defendant's counsel said that he waft opium addict and'had-to it to live. There was no hope of reformation. ' The*detective-sergeant said that the police objected to landlords allowing premises -to be barred-and barricaded, placo> was an/ absolute* vy;b»ch took the police an hour to break tMfls."
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20181, 9 March 1931, Page 16
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90CHINESE FINED £75. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20181, 9 March 1931, Page 16
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