"BLACK GOODS."
OPIUM ALLEGATION.
CHINESE BEFORE COURT.
LETTERS FROM HONGKONG. (By Telegraph. — Press Association.) DUNEDTX, this day. Allegations that accused was dealing extensively in opium were made by Chief Detective Young in the Police Court, .when a voting Chinese, George Foug, wae charged with dealing in prepared opium. The police produced letters alleged to refer to opium,' one from Hongkong. It wae stated that accused had a small laundry. On May 25 detectives accosted him when going to his shop with a small attache case, which was found to contain 24 tins of prepared opium, said to be the largest quantity taken from one person in New Zealand. In the shop were letters from Sydney and Hongkong in which reference was made to "black goods." Although accused ran only a small laundry, the police eaid, he had banked £1250* last year, and also had £150 in the Savings Bank. When told that he was to be arrested, he offered the detectives a bribe of £50. The defence was that the prosecution had failed to prove either a dealing or sale. Decision was reserved.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 139, 14 June 1935, Page 8
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