PREMISES RAIDED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. Within the space of four or five minutes this afternoon a small party of police forced open five formidably barricaded doors inside a house in Haining Street and arrested six Chinese on charges connected with opium smoking. A quantity of opium was found and the Chinese will appear before the Court to-morrow. The outer door of the house was forced with a timber jack capable of lifting five tons and the police then progressed steadily through the house, breaking down five barricades one after the other in the dark. In a second storey room five- Chinese were found huddled in a corner. A thorough search for opium was carried out and in due course this, concealed by a trap door in the floor of the room, was discovered. When the door was lifted a sixth Chinese was found crouching at the bottom of a ten foot hole running alongside the chimney stack.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 251, 20 September 1933, Page 11
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