Big haul of cannabis in Southland
PA Invercargill About 1000 cannabis plants, the biggest plantation found in Southland, were uprooted by detectives who went on to an island in the Waiau River, north of Monowai, after the arrest of two men in the area on Wednesdayevening.
The plants would have had a street value of “tens of thousands of dollars,” accordin to the police, who had kept watch on the remote area in the Fiordland National Park after receiving information last November. The plants were growing in dense bush. Detective Senior-Sergeant K. Schwass, the head of the Invercargill C. 1.8., said that police resources in the area had been stretched to the limit, in what had been one of the biggest actions of its kind in New Zealand. Two men appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Invercargill on Thursday, one charged with cultivating cannabis, and the other with possession of cannabis. They were remanded to March 1.
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Press, 24 February 1979, Page 3
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