OPIUM SMUGGLER FINED
CREW REFUSES TO SAIL WITHOUT HIM PASSENGERS GO HUNGRY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 12.30 p.m. SUVA, Monday. One of the crew of the Ville De Verdun, a ship of the Messageries Maritimes Line, was fined £75 yesterday for smuggling 26 pounds of opium into Fiji. The captain was going to sail without the smuggler, but the crew went on strike and the ship was held up for four hours. The passengers had to go without dinner. The agents guaranteed the money and the prisoner was released, the ship sailing for Noumea at 9 p.m.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 716, 16 July 1929, Page 11
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