OPIUM SMOKING
FINES TOTAL £322
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
Following .a police raid on premises in Ferry Road on Saturday two Chinese appeared in the Magistrate's Court on charges connected with opium smoking, and a third was charged with being unlawfully on the premises: Fines totalling £322 were imposed by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M. Ah-Yee was charged: (1) That, being the occupier of the premises, he permitted them to be used for the smoking of prepared opium; (2) that he was found in possession of prepared opium; (3) that he was found in possession of utensils used for the purpose of smoking prepared opium. He was fined £200 on the first charge and £50 on each of the other charges. It was stated that he had been fined £100 four years ago. On three charges Yee See was fined a total of £20. For being found on the premises Ah Low was fined £2.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 11
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157OPIUM SMOKING Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 11
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