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CHINESE OPIUM DEN. THIRTEEN ME S' CONVICTED. IBy Telegraph —Per Press Association J WELLINGTON. Feb. 22. Fortified against the police by a system of alarm bells, iron bars and wooden beams, a three-roomed opium den, No. 19. Haining .street, stood for only lt> minutes when raided by Detectives W. Ritchie and T. Smith, about midnight on •Sa'airday, when the detectives hacked their way into the premises by means ot crowbar, axe and saw.
They found a large quantity of pipes. They also found fifteen Chinese, whose ages ‘ranged from 75 years to 28 years. Woon Jang, the occupier of the house, was fined a total of £250 at the Police Count to-dav, by Mr W. H. Woodward, SMI.; who s aid that Jang had clearly made it a practice to profit by the weakness of his countrymen hv encouraging them to indulge in the drug.
The Magistrate took a more lenient view in the cases of the twelve men, whom he fined £l2 10s each for being unlawfully on premises used for opiurh smoking. Similar charges against Ah Ge e and Yee Don, both aged 75, -who pleaded not guilty, on the ground that they lived on it hepreniises, were dismissed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1932, Page 5
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