OPIUM SEIZED.
By Telegraph—Fress Association. WELLINGTON, August 18. The sample cases of William Alfred Masters, a commercial traveller who arrived from Sydney by the Moeraki, were searched by the Customs officers to-day. It is stated that under a false bottom of one case were found one hundred half-pound tins of opium, valued at £3OO. Masters was arretted and subsequently bailed out. He will appear before the Magistrate in the morning
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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70OPIUM SEIZED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9572, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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