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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 3

“The Legislature has seen fit to make these charges revenue-producing,” said Air. E. Ilardie Boys, in the Wellington Alagistratc’s Court on Alonday when referring to charges of opium smoking and the keeping of premises for such purposes. “The court has no alternative but to fine . . . The fact that some of tho gear was not taken possession of by the police, and is apparently left to bo taken over by tho next occupier of the premises, who will duly be ‘collected’ and fined in his turn, is in itself proof enough that the offence is regarded as a revenue-producing one.” Thirty tons of old horseshoes are included in a consignment of 180 tons of scrap iron loaded into tho Sydney Alaru at New Plymouth for shipment to Japan. Old cranes, motor cars and much unrecognisable junk are included ir. tho consignment, which is tho first of the kind to bo shipped through the port. Thero are two heavy cranes, ono from the Now Plymouth Harbour Board and the other rrom tho JpuniKc Harbour Board, which once did duty in the building of Westport harbour.