SMUGGLING CHARGE
Evidence Of Dive Into Harbour
(1V.2. Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 27. When challenged by an Auckland Customs official at 930 p.m. on April 6, Ho Chi. a 40-year-old motorman on the Kwangsi, ran out of the wharf gates and dived into the harbour, according to evidence in the Magistrate's Court today. Ho Chi pleaded not guilty to a charge of smuggling a transistor radio and was remanded In custody by Mr R. D. Jamieson, S.M., who said he wanted to consider the case. Mr J. H C. Larsen, for the Customs Department, said two days after Ho Chi had been hauled unconscious out of the water a diver was sent down and from near the spot where Ho Chi dived in brought up a transistor radio. The Magistrate said for all he knew .there might be a terrific traffic of fleeing Chinese around the port of Auckland throwing transistor radios overboard and there was no actual proof the radio belonged to Ho Chi.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 5
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