SUSPECTED OPIUM DEN.
By Telegraph—Press Association. PALMERSTQN N., December 19. Last night the police raided a suspected opium den in Main Street. They effected an entrance by picking a lock ot the back door. Inside they found three Chinese in a room at the back, one named Lee Ping smoking, with a considerable quantity of opium in his possession. Two more were discovered in another room with pipe and paraphernalia. They will be brought before the Court in due course.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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80SUSPECTED OPIUM DEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3075, 21 December 1908, Page 5
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