OPIUM SEARCH FRUITLESS.
HAINING STREET HOUSES ARE TURNED INSIDE OUT WHILE CELESTIALS SMTLfi. WELLINGTON, Last Night. A large party of detectives and plain clothes policemen raided Haining street, in the city's Chinese quarter, this afternoon and for well over aa hour, carried on a fruitless search for opium. The arrival of the Makura and Slarama from Sydney had evidently suggested, new supplies of the drug. On entering three of the houses, the thoroughness of the search was made apparent to the crowd gathered outside by the - sounds of old floor-boards being pulled up. Nothing wa» le,ft m»* done to find any opium which might bo secreted away. While the search was proceeding, thv entiro Chinese population of Haining street seemed to gather on the footpath opposite and judging by their animated chatter and \he happy expression on their faces, it would not take much imagination to guess that the Celestials knew that there was nothing in the houses being raided.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 December 1929, Page 7
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