CHINESE FINED £350
DEALT IN PREPARED OPIUM ATTEMPT TO BRIBE POLICE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 15. In tlie Police Court George Fong was fined £3-50 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 lor appeal was fixed at ten guineas. Tn announcing the conviction the magistrate referred to the fact that 24 tins of opium were found in Fong’s possession, 21 of which were parcelled. Fong also maintained correspondence which seemed to indicate inquiries for opium, to a large sum banked, to a list of dangerous drugs in Fong’s possession, to his attempt to bribe the police and to his admission that ho received 2s a tin, all being factoi s in the decision to convict.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 June 1935, Page 4
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