SEARCH FOR OPIUM.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18574, 29 November 1920, Page 6

SEARCH FOR OPIUM.

JAPANESE STEAMER RAIDED. Having reason to believe that undeclared opium, was on board the Japanese steamer Hakushika Mara, at present unloading coal for tho Railway Department, in Lyttelton, Customs officials and the police searched the vessel on Saturday and discovered a number of tins of opium, valued, it is stated, at £IOO. Sergeant Jackson arrested a member of the oiw, who will be brought before Mr S. E. M'Carthy. S-M-, at the Magistrate's Court to-day. „ ,' , Lyttelton was the first New Zealand port of call of tho Hakushika Maru.