AUST. DRUGS HAUL
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) SYDNEY, March 28. Drugs worth $360,000 have been seized by the Australian Federal Narcotics Bureau during the last 10 days. The haul includes 62,250 LSD tablets worth $320,000 on the black market. The Minister of Customs (Mr Donald Chipp) said yesterday that the drugs had bene found in raids in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Coolangatta, on the Queensland Gold Coast Fifteen people, including seven foreigners, had been arrested, some of them believed to be leaders in drug - smuggling organisations, Mr Chipp said, adding that information had been passed from Australia to Britain, the United States, Malaysia and Europe.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32880, 1 April 1972, Page 9
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