OPIUM SMOKING
' CHINAMAN TO PAY HEAVY FINE OR TO GO TO GAOL FOR THREE MONTHS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Wong Ming, a Chinese, was fined £5O, on the charge of being found in possession of prepared opium, when he appeared before Mr E. C. Levvey in the Magistrate's Court today. Default was fixed at three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. “The Court has had too much experience of these matters not to take them seriously,” said the Magistrate. “There is the danger of contamination.” Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike said police officers visited premises occupied by Wong Ming, when they found Ming in a stupid condition, and they also found the usual paraphernalia for opium smoking. Ming had not been before the Court previously, but the police were convinced he was a carrier of opium.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 6
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134OPIUM SMOKING Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1938, Page 6
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