MAN CONVICTED FOR GROWING HASHISH

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 10

MAN CONVICTED FOR GROWING HASHISH

(New Zealand Preet Association)

TAURANGA, Dec. 11. A charge of cultivating a prohibited plant. Cannabis sativa (hashish or Indian hemp) at Mount Maunganui on December 9. no'i being the holder of a licence: issued by the Director General of Health, was admitted by Langley Rhaviley Clark, aged 25, unemployed, of Auckland before Mr C. J. Donne, SJ«.. in the Tauranga Court today. Clark also pleaded guilty to a charge of having a dangerous drug. Cannabis sativa. in his possession at Mount Maunganui on December 9 and charges of stealing two cheque forms and a driver’s licence. , , Mr Donne convicted Clark and remanded him to December 19 for sentence. Detective T. W. Irving said Constable D. W. Lye. of Mount Maunganui, interviewed Clark after noticing him about the town on several occasions. Clark had the drivers licence and cheque forms in his possession, and also a zinc-lined wooden box containing 18 “quite healthy’ Indian hemp plants. “He claimed at first they were tomato plants which he had purchased in a ‘punch and grow’ box in Auckland, Detective Irvign said.

“Later he admitted he had bought 18 seeds from a man in Auckland for £4 and had raised them himself.” Clark said the man from whom he bought the seeds told him each plant would yield enough “weed for 30 cigarettes which would do no harm to any person smoking them and could be "knocked off” at any time.