OPIUM SMOKING.
By Telegraph—Press Association. NELSON, January 19. A Chinese market gardener at Stoke was. yesterday fined £5 and costs for smoking opium, and Is and costs foi having smokable opium in his possession. The latter fine was as the material smoked was ashes of opium, whence only a couple of pipefuls could be obtained. Another Chinaman, owner of the premises, escaped from a charge of permitting opium smoking as, though caught in a dazed state, obviously from the effects of smoking, he had not been found in the act.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3096, 20 January 1909, Page 5
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90OPIUM SMOKING. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3096, 20 January 1909, Page 5
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