POSSESSION OF OPIUM.
FINE OF TWENTY POUNDS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Juno 24. “This man is evidently dealing in opium and supplying it to Chinese,” said the Collector of Customs in prosecuting Edward Freeman, a sailor on the Marama, who was found possessed of two tins when the detectives raided a Chinese shop in Willis street/ The defence raised was that an altercation occurred on board between some Chinese and that one of them asked Freeman to take a parcel to the shop. When he got there he handed the parcel to some Chinaman, The detectives came in then and the Chinaman thrust the parcel back on accused. The Collector of Customs said_ the retail value of the opium was between £2O and £25 a tin.
The magistrate, Mr Page, said that, even if he accepted the evidence of Freeman as substantially correct, it indicated that he was a party to smuggling. Ho imposed a fine of £2O.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 8
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