OPIUM-SMOKING
CHINESE HEAVILY FINED. Wellington, Dec. 10. Arising out of q police raid on a strongly fortified and barricaded Chinese premises in Haining street yesterday, eight Chinese were fined a total of £235 to-day. Ngh Pong, the occupier, was fined £lOO for allowing his premises to be used for opium smoking and £25 for having prepared opium in his possession. Those found on the premises were fined £l5 each. Default was fixed at three months’ in the case of Ngh Pong and one month in tho case of the others, with no time to pay. A ninth Chinese, Ah Joe, was convicted of giving a bribe of £5 to Senior-Sergeant Scott and Constable Hodge to induce them to f > their duty, and was fined £5, in default 21 days’. Tho £" given to the police was ordered to be' paid to the Wellington Hospital.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 307, 11 December 1931, Page 11
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