CHINESE AND OPIUM
RAID IN HAINING STREET TWO MEN FIXED. Ching Young Get, alias Get Chin Yum, alias Ching Yeum Get, a Chinese gardener, aged 39, and Ah Joe. a Chinese gardener, aged 37, appeared before Mr E. Page, 5.. M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with being in possession of prohibited goods I —opium, suitable for smoking. ChiefDetective Ward appeared for the police, and Mr S. Joll for the two accused. As the result of a raid in Haining street by Plain-clothes Constables Ambrose and Johnstone the two Celestials were arrested. Chief-Detective Ward told the court that Get had been fined twice in 1922, one fine being £25 and the other £3O. Nothing was known against Ah Joe. Mr Joll: With respect to Ah Joe, he is in bad health and takes opium for medicinal purposes. He is not an habitual smoker. Get has hod nothing against him since 1922, and both are poor men. It was stated that both men were of the waster class, and that Get's house was barricaded. The magistrate fined Get £3O, in default two months’ imprisonment, and Ah Joe £ls, in default one month’s imprisonment. Mr E. T. W. McLaurin appeared for the Customs Department.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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203CHINESE AND OPIUM New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 6
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