OPIUM FRAUDS. SOME CUSTOMS OFFICIALS NOT SURPRISED.
By Ttlegraph.--rrcsa Association.— Copyright. (Received February 27, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Some of tho Customs officials are not surprised at tho Adelaide opium frauds. One- official estimated that the Customs losses in the various States totalled £100,000 per annum. A police raid on the premises of Ellison, a shopkeeper, at Port Adelaide, revealed a "plant" of opium in the garden: Ellison confessed that ne was the Adelaide and Broken Hill agent of a gigantic opium smuggling company, which had establishments at Port Darwin, Sydney, Jrisbane, and Melbourne, and in other parts of Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 7
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101OPIUM FRAUDS. SOME CUSTOMS OFFICIALS NOT SURPRISED. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 49, 27 February 1908, Page 7
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