SMUGGLER OF OPIUM
Steward on the Marama FINE OF £125 IMPOSED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 16. A steward, Alexander Richardson, aged 39, pleaded guilty to-day to a charge of importing on March 15 ten eight-ounce tins of prepared opium. The Collector of Customs said that information was received that opium was being imported in the Marama, and that a steward was likely to have it. Two detectives followed accused and accosted him while he was talking to two Chinese in the street. Accused admitted that two parcels he carried contained opium, and remarked that he was “only the mug.” He was going to get £62 for the opium. Richardson had nothing to say. He was fined £125, in default three months’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 13
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123SMUGGLER OF OPIUM Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 147, 17 March 1933, Page 13
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