OPIUM FOUND
BIG HAUL IN MAL.HY -STATES. (Um + *d Press Association —Bv Electri* Telegraph—Copyright) SINGAPORE, October 29The Malay -States customs have discovered thirty-one petrol tins full of opium buried in a cave, on an uninhabited island. .The customs officers have been' searching for weeks among •hundreds of islands and along miles of the coastline, but their task has been made hazardous -owing to shades, oe-topi, 'and crocodiles in the dense jungle. It is believed that there are several other caches.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 5
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80OPIUM FOUND Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 5
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