OPIUM CHARGES
£25 Fines For Two Chinese
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Christchurch, January 5. Two Chinese, Fong Lee, a market gardener, aged 50, occupying premises at Marshland, and Lay Sun, a market gardener, aged 26, were convicted on charges connected with the illegal po# session and storage of opium. Fong Lee, for allowing premises to be used for the storage of opium, was fined £25 and given a month to pay. Lay Sun was charged with being found in illegal possession of opium and with unlawfully smoking opium. The latter charge was dropped on the ground that as-no pipe was found it was impossible to prove smoking. He was fined £25 and given fourteen days to pay, in default three months’ imprisonment. Both men bad been convicted on similar charges on December 20, when Fong Lee was lined £lOO and Lay Sun £l2/10/-.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 5
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142OPIUM CHARGES Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 87, 7 January 1935, Page 5
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