LARGE BLOCK OF OPIUM SEIZED
lieeeiveil Pridav, S.5 p.m. SYDNEY, August 8. Opium wortl) £">51)0 on tlie blaekniarket was exhibited in the special Pederal Court today. It was 331b, s weight and was the largest 0118101113' seizure for 30 years. A Chinese earpenter in the steamer Daronia was fmed £500 in default a year's gaol. „ . The ■ opium was f 04111 d in a large apparently solid block of wood in the earpenter 's ■ room in the sliip and another 201b s was eoneealed behind a false panelling.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 August 1947, Page 3
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