OPIUM SMUGGLERS.
ACTIVE TN AUCKLAND,
Auckland, Last Night. Investigations by Customs officials show that opium is being smuggled into Auckland in fairly large bulk. Tn Friday’s raid in Pousonby Rd., (not Cray Street) over five pounds’ weight of the drug was discovered in a Hindu fruit shop. The legitimate retail price is ten shillings an ounce, bill it is known that Asiatics here have offered ns much as £ls an ounce.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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71OPIUM SMUGGLERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2574, 1 May 1923, Page 3
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