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ITAINTNGr STREET PREMISES
POLICE BREAK WAY IX,
OPIUM! POSSESSION CHARGES
(Special to “Northern Advocate.”)
WELLINGTON, Monday.
Shortly before daybreak this morning two detectives and a constable forced their way into a heavily barricaded house in Haining Street and arrested seven men.
The men will appear at the Police Court on charges of having been found in possession of opium.
When Detectives W. Ritchie and T. Smith and a constable approached the house, the entrances were seer rely fastened and the windows boarded. A door leading through a narrow passage between the house and the adjoining one was forced. At Hie back door not. a sound greeted (lie demand for admission. After two hours’ work with various tools tire police cut. their way through a mesh steel net ting and entered the building. A police van took away the prisoners. The building was barricaded like a fortress, and if the detectives had not gained entrance through a window the house would have withstood a prolonged siege.
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Northern Advocate, 20 December 1932, Page 3
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