IN POSSESSION OF OPIUM
CHINESE FINED £5O. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. For having been in possession of a quantity of prepared opium in Wellington on August 31, Chin Wing, alias Harry Chung, who was described as a gaming-house keeper, was fined £5O when he appeared before Mr J. LStout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. He pleaded guilty. “Last evening Constable Thompson visited the residence of this Chinese at Taranaki Street,” said Sub-Inspector J. A. Dempsey. “When he questioned the Chinese about some opium Wing said he had some and brought out one tin. But a search of the room revealed five other tins of opium, making a total of six tins in his possession. Defendant appeared first before the court at Wellington in September, 1932, when he was fined £35 for keeping a common gaming-house. On August T 7, 1933, in Hastings, he was fined £5O for being in possession of prepared opium.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 2
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