CHINESE FINED
DEALINGS WITH OPIUM
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NAPIER, This Day.
Wong Sing, a market. gardener, said to have traded systematically in opium, was fined £50 this'morning. Three half-pound tins of opium w.ere found in the, accused's, possession when" he was. questioned on. Saturday evening. -The' policed said that .the accused had eluded' "them1 for. some ; time.' 'He .bought opium.from a Chinese firm-, in Wellington!.. . . Jack " . Yee,' described ." as .a-well-, known opium smoker, was fined' £25 for being found in possession of opium smoking, utensils.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 103, 3 May 1937, Page 11
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