BIG HALL OF CANNABIS
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND. June 20. Auckland drug-squad detectives swooped on a car parked in Glen Innes today and seized two large wooden boxes, false compartments of which were stuffed with a large quantity of cannabis.
Three men were later arrested and will appear in the Magistrate’s Court tomorrow morning charged with the possession of cannabis for the purposes of supply. The actual black market i value of the cannabis has not yet been established — it has been stored in the police strongroom — but the. drug-squad chief, Detective,
Sergeant A. J. Hill, said that; hit was “a substantial quan-l 'ltity.” -! The cannabis was thought, [to have come from overseas,, • i he said, but its point of ori-i • |gin was yet to be deter- : .[mined. •I The arrests resulted from! :[a long period of observation' Jon the parked car. |
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33875, 21 June 1975, Page 2
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