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AND GAOL FOR TWO MONTHS. OCCUPIER OF OPIUM DEN. (Per Press AssucMtiou Copyright.) WELLINGTON, December 20. Two months’ gaol (and a line of £l5O was the sentence imposed in the Police Court yesterday upon Jerry Ying a Chinaman, the occupier of the heavily barricaded opium den in Haining Street, which’ was entered early on Sunday morning alter three hours’ struggle by detectives.
Six Chinese who were found on the premises, were each fined £12710'/-, the minimum penalty. Woodward, S.M., who heard the cases, said that evidence of the opium was perfectly convincing. “This is a nefarious trade,” he said, before sentencing the occupier.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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