OPIUM SMUGGLER
ARRESTED ON LANDING. iper Press Association — Copyright.) WELLINGTON, July 26. Thomas Daniel Meehan, a member of the crew of the “Maunganui,” which arrived from Sydney, was caught leaving tl:e wharf with ten half-pound tins of opium, valued approximately at £2OO. He was fined £125. or in defaultsix mouths’ imprisonment* on a charge of importing opium. Meehan said he was acting as a runner, and his share of the proceeds was £1 per tin ii the consignment were landed. He said be previously had landed one let of ten tins. He was allowed a fortnight to pav the fine conditional on his entering into a bond ol £l5O, w .In a suiecj of £l5O. '
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1932, Page 2
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115OPIUM SMUGGLER Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1932, Page 2
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