OPIUM SMOKING
CHINESE OFFENDER CONVICTED ANOTHER SUBSTANTIAL PENALTY When detectives visited premises at 84 Maclaggan street recently, they found the doors barred up securely. On entry they discovered that a slusnlamp, such as is used for opium smoking, was alight in a room on the ground floor; and another upstairs was still warm. The only person on the premises was Wong Chok, a labourer, who appeared in the Police Court this morning charged with being in sion of opium in a form fit for smoking.
Chief-detective T. Y. Hall said that the accused was obviously suffering from the effects of smoking opium when he was apprehended. On a charge of a similar nature last year he had been fined £6O, which he had been paying off in dribs and drabs. There was still £2 unpaid. The accused admitted that the smoking paraphernalia (produced was his property. The accused was fined £75 with costs (10s), and inthat ho needed time to pay. " L.ow long do you want?" asked the Magistrate, Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.
" How much jail? '' countered Wong Chok.
" I'm not going to tell you," returned Mr Bartholomew. He directed that the fine be paid in instalments of £lO monthlv.
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Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 6
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201OPIUM SMOKING Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 6
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