OPIUM FROM THE EAST
CHINESE FINED £2OO [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, November 6. Arrested last night as he was coining through the wharf gates, Tan Han P'ong (35), employed on a large liner now in port, was fined £2OO by the magistrate, Mr Orr Walker, in the Police Court today for importing to Now Zealand a quantity of prepared opium. He pleaded guilty. The police said a search revealed that the accused had four 4lb tins and 14 2oz tins of opium strapped with rubber bands around his body and. logs. The Collector of Customs said that Tan belonged to a ship which had recently arrived from the East. Tan told the police ho purchased the opium at Singapore, but would not say from whom he got it. He said he saw a Chinese in Auckland yesterday, who was to take the opium, but did not know his name. The value of the opium here would be between £6O and £IOO. The Magistrate ordered immediate execution of the court order and forfeiture of the opium.
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Evening Star, Issue 23726, 6 November 1940, Page 6
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176OPIUM FROM THE EAST Evening Star, Issue 23726, 6 November 1940, Page 6
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