CHINESE EMERGENCY EXIT
HOLE MADE BY DETECTIVES
SUSPECTED OPIUM DEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 2. A hole smashed by detectives in the ceiling of an alleged opium den in Gray’s Avenue in July of last year, was used as an emergency exit by Chinese when the police again isidecl the premises late on Saturday night. When the police had succeeded in battering down the front door they found p.o trace of opium and only three solemn Chinese, but they could see several more quickly clambering over the adjoining housetops. No arrests were made.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 October 1933, Page 7
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94CHINESE EMERGENCY EXIT Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 October 1933, Page 7
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