"A POOR CHINAMAN."
FELL TO TEMPTATION.
EXPENSIVE OPIUM TRAFFIC,
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At the Court to-day Kong Quing, a Chinese, who was arrested yesterday for attempting to import opium into the Dominion, was fined £150, with the alternative of nine months' imprisonment. Counsel said defendant was a poor man who had fallen to temptation when it was suggested to him in China that he should bring opium to Xew Zealand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 215, 11 September 1929, Page 9
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