OPIUM ADDICT
CHINESE FINED ISO [P«a Uamro Pams Amoctatiok.] GISBORNE, March 25. Fines aggregating £SO, in delault three months’ iniprisoinnent, were imposed by Mr Levvey, S.M., on a Chinese market gardener, Wong Dan, aged forty-five 5 who pleaded guilty to charges of being found in possession of and smoking opium. The police stated that when they raided the premises they detected a strong smell of opium but belore they gained admission the accused had thrown his pipe, lamp, and a small tin of opium through the window. The police found in the building a letter addressed to the owner of the premises, containing a piece of brown paper which had been smeared witn opium, this being the method adopted to send the drug through the post. .Defendant had purchased the opium from a firm in Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 11
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136OPIUM ADDICT Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 11
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