GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
CHINAMEN FINED FOR OPIUM SMOKING. (by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.! PALMERSTON N., July 16. At the Magistrate’s Court, Lee Gee Long was fined £lO for allowing opium smoking on hjs premises, and was also fined £l2 10s, the minimum under the Act, for being in possession of a packet of opium “seconds.” Two other Chinamen found on Long’s premises were fined for smoking opium. OFFENCE BY SOLICITOR. CHRISTCHURCH, July 10. At the Supreme Court, Lionel Lancelot Hitching*, solicitor, was found guilty of failing to account for £ls to his employers, and was admitted to probation for three years. OBITUARY. THAMES. July 16. The death is recorded of Charles Judd, aged 87, the founder of the first foundry in Thames, which he established in 1868. His firm constructed most of the iron lighthouses on the New Zealand coasts.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 July 1924, Page 9
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