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HEAVY BARRICADE. WELLINGTON POLICE RAID. ALLEGED OPIUM SMOKERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Disturbing the serenity of Haining Street shortly before 11.30 last night, a large force of police forced open the heavily barricaded doors of two houses suspected of harbouring opium smokers. Nine occupants were arrested. The arrival of the police caused something of a panic, and in one house a Chinese was eventually found hiding among the rafters above the ceiling. The system of barricades was : elaborate. Heavy steel mesh lined the linsidee of all doors and windows. This, i with wooden and iron bars, made the Uisk of the police a difficult one. A steel net at the top of a flight of stairs in one house blocked access to the upper storey, and the police employed a powerful timber jack in effecting an entry.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 5
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141STEEL NETS. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 70, 24 March 1933, Page 5
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