SEIZURE OF OPIUM.
TWO MEN ARRESTED,
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, July 31. Customs officials on duty at the Queen’s Wlrarf to-night seized about £3OO worth of opium discovered by them being brought ashore from the Sydney steamer Marama by a steward and a taxidriver. It appears that at about 6 p.m. the customs officials observed the steward and the taxi-driver coming ashore front tho Maranta with their pockets bulging. This aroused the suspicions of the officials, who stopped the two men and searched them, finding several tins of opium. The opium was seized and the men were given in charge of the wharf police. , . They will appear before the Magistrate’s Court to-morrow.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 208, 1 August 1928, Page 9
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