OPIUM DEN BEHIND BARRED DOORS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1929, Page 5

OPIUM DEN BEHIND BARRED DOORS.

PROPRIETOR AND THREE OTHERS PINED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day.

The police last night made a raid on Chinese premises in Grey’s Avenue. They found the doors locked and barred, but crawled through a fanlight and forced the doors to reach an upstairs room, whore they found a number of Chinese. A fire was burning in a kerosene tin, and pipes, opium, and 'other utensils for smoking opium were in the rooni.

At the Police Court, fo-daj 4 !, Jen Lum, proprietor of the house, was fined £SO, or three months’ gaol. Ah Clung, Lowe Long and A. Jam were each fined £l2 10s, or one month’s imprisonment. OPIUM IN A BUCKET. CHINESE FINED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.

At the S.M Court to-day Kong Quing, the Chinese who was arrested yesterday, for attempting to import opium into the Dominion, was fined £l5O or nine months’ imprisonment. Coiinst" said defendant was a poor man and had fallen to the temptation when it was suggested to him in China he should bring opium to New' Zealand. A Customs officer found the opium under the false bottom of a bucket carried by accused.