OPIUM SMUGGLING
MARAMA STEWARD
CAUGHT
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Alexander Richardson (39), a steward, pleaded guilty today 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 the accused and accosted him while he was talking to_ two Chinese in the street. He 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. .The accused had nothing to say. He was fined £125, in default three months' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12
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118OPIUM SMUGGLING Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 12
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