OPIUM IMPORTED.
FINE OF £125 INFLICTED. (Special to the "Guardian.") AUCKLAND, March 16. Alexander Richardson, aged -37, a steward, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of importing on March 15 ten 8oz v tins of prepared opium.* , The Collector of Customs said infor-' mation was received that opium was being imported in the Marama and that a isteward was likely to have it. Two detectives followed the accused and accosted him while he was talking to two Chinese in the street. He admitted that two parcels he carried contained opium and he remarked that he'was "only the mug." He was going to get £62 for the opium. The accused had" nothing to say. He was fined £125, in default three months' imprisonment. , , '
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 133, 17 March 1933, Page 2
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