OPIUM DEN RAIDED.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 21. The three detectives who raided an opium den in Nelson Street last night found a trap door barring the entrance to the upper storey. , One Chinese escaped by a window, but three were arrested and to-day were fined £25 each. The Magistrate, ill- Wyvern Wilson, remarked: “These opium smokers cannot keep away from the drug, and I think that there should be some place where they could be placed, for, say, twelve months to get the effect of the drug out of their system. Their relatives usually pay their fines. If they go to gaol the country has to keep them.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 121, 21 April 1934, Page 2
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