PREMISES RAIDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1937, Page 5

PREMISES RAIDED

OPIUM SEIZED

SIX CHINESE CHARGED

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, September 0,

Chopping their way through a heavily barricaded window on the second storey of a building in Grey*'s Avenue on Wednesday night, detectives entered premises and seized a quantity of prepared opium, opium seconds, and pipes. '

The detectives, who climbed a ladder placed on the verandah in front of the building, had considerable difficulty in entering. The window was barred inside with inch planking, backed with three uprights and four cross pieces of three-inch by two-inch timber, reinforced with wire. A hole was cut and one detective went in and opened the door for the others. The doors were all reinforced on the inside.

: As a result of the raid six Chinese appeared in the Magistrate's Court before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Five of them, Gin On, laundryman; Wong Mow, aged 38; Ah Lee, gardener, aged 25; Ah Sai, gardener, aged 45; and Shim Lind, pleaded guilty to charges of being found on premises for the purpose of smoking opium. "The premises are well known and have figured in court before," said theMagistrate. "The place was barricaded, and they knew the risk they were running." Gin On and Wong Mow, who had been before the Court previously, were each fined £20 and costs. Ah Lee, Ah Sai, and Shim Lind were each fined £12 10s and costs. Stanley Chin Home, laundryman, aged 47, was charged witrr permitting premises _to be used for smoking opium and with being found in possession of prepared opium. He was remanded, bail being fixed at £100.