Big haul of cannabis at Pukekawa
PA Auckland Detectives have seized 1200 cannabis plants, some more than 2m -‘.all, from a Pukekawa farm. The plants, with an alleged street value of about $50,000, comprised one of the biggest hauls of cannabis plants' in the Auckland police district. A squad of detectives searched a farmhouse and several hectares of bush on the property. More than 3kg of picked ■ material was j found in the house, and nine separate plots of cannabis were found, growing among gorse and mahuka /in a gully. . . ■ The plots had plants ranging in height from a few centimetres to the mature 1.5 m: to 2m plants. The biggest' plo-f contained 240 plants. A man, aged 50, was to appear in the Magistrate’s Court at Otahuhu charged with cultivating cannabis.
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Press, 25 February 1980, Page 2
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