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1 ■■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) , '■ .-.'■'•, .../ AUCKLAND, This Day. . O- Detectives found a Chinese house, in Qt,ey'g avenue so. strongly .barred last i aighit. that they used axes to cut ;their '-way. .into the premises, where it is alleged opium was being smoked. Five •doors had iron bars fixed on the inner -tides, and barbed wire was used to inako entrance more • difficult. Steven ; Chinese were in. " one room, where .lamps were burning." All were arrest- :. cd.. At the Police Court this morning , Ah Chin., was charged with being the occupier of the house, and six others ■with being unlawfully in possession of opium. All were remaiided • till Bth, October. '.'...•"
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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115AN OPIUM DEN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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