CHINESE FINED £350
DEALER IN OPIUM.
[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
DUNEDIN, June 15.
In the Police Court, George Fong, was fined £350, on a charge of dealing in prepared opium. Charges of selling and having smoking apparatus in his, possession were dismissed. Default was fixed at six months’ imprisonment, seven days- being allowed to find the fine. Security for appeal was fixed at ten guineas. . In announcing a conviction, the Magistrate referred to the fact that 24 tins of opium were found in Fong’s possession, 21 of which were parcelled to correspondence, which seemed to indicate inquiries for opium, to the large sum banked, and to the list of dangerous drugs in Fong’s possession, also his attempt to bribe the police, and the admission that he received 2/- per tin, all being factors in the decision to convict.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1935, Page 7
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