SMUGGLED OPIUM
TWO CHINESE PINED £23 EACH. On Saturday evening a Customs official (Mr. A. H. Boland) arrested two Chinese in the act of leaving the "wharf with a quantity of smuggled opium suitable for smoking. The men, Ah Kan and Ju Ah Foo, were employed as seaman and carpenter respectively on a, vessel fitting up as a troopship. This afternoon, before Mr. D. Gr. A. Cooper, S.M., they were charged with smuggling eight tins of opium of 7oz each, valued at £10 10s. They pleaded guilty, and were both fined the minimum amount of £25, in default one month's imprisonment. Mr. E. T. W. M'Launn, Collector of Customs, prosecuted. '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 8
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110SMUGGLED OPIUM Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 56, 8 March 1915, Page 8
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