OPIUM TRAFFIC.
PROSECUTIONS IN FIJI. MANY NEW ARRIVALS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, June 3. Fiji is fast filling up with Chinese who are brought here under indenture by Chinese merchants and others. Many of the new arrivals have brought with them a love for "the pipe." The Empire is busy just now with a campaign against the smoking of opium and Fiji has been instructed to take up the work ,locally. The Suva district inspector, Mr. G. Kermode, has shown great energy in prosecuting Chinese offenders and every month smokers are hunted into Court, where fines of £25 and over are proving a small goldmine to the authorities. Last week fines of over £100 were imposed-. In spite of these fines the same men keep coming up time after time, the supply of opium apparently being never ending.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1936, Page 8
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