OPIUM ON MAHENO.
A SUCCESSFUL SEARCH. CUSTOMS OFFICERS GET ELEVEN TIXS. Particularly smart work on the part of the local Customs officers has resulted in the discovery of eleven tins of opium on .board the Union Company's intercolonial passenger steamer M&heno, which arrived from Sydney yesterday afternoon, and berthed at the Queen's wharf. The officers commenced their search at an early hour this morning, and at 8.30 • leven tins were found secreted under the flooring of a wardrobe in a saloon cabin. The opium is valued at £110. So far the owner of the drug has not been discovered. i When the Maheno arrived at Wellington on her last trip from Sydney, on October 7, Customs officers searched the vessel, and found seven tins in the wheelhouse-
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 4
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127OPIUM ON MAHENO. Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 251, 22 October 1924, Page 4
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