IMPORTED OPIUM.
; FINE OF £2OO •I A ;\ ‘ , '* ,j IKVPOSED ON CHINAMAN. ;■ .w iMi V .(Per Copyright.) ' AUCKLAND, July 20. The last thing that Gin Wah Chark* aged 29, a laundryman, did beiiore leaving China was to buy a fortune telling I ticket. from a. slot machine. This told him that he • would be very unlucky -when he reached New, Zealand.,. Yesterday on the Zealandia,': he was arrested for importing opium, ; and today was ; fined £2OO, or five months*' imprisonment. . . : The Collector of Customs told the Magistrate that seven tins were found inside accused’s boots,. three tins were concealed as medicine, and six were in baskets of dried mushrooms. Accused had been nineteen months away front New Zealand * and previously had lived here, for eight , years,; ; • Counsel said that accused was a
confirmed smoked; and brought !the ■ ( opium for his own use, avhioh cost about £1 in China. . . ’ The Magistrate observed that the' opium accused brought was enough to last him for many years, and-the Col- ■ lector ! said that it was probably, worth £l2 por tin .hore, ‘
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 5
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176IMPORTED OPIUM. Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 5
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