OPIUM SMUGGLING
•/• A SAILOR FINED (United Press Association.) : WELLINGTON, This Day “This main is evidently dealing in opium and supplying it to Chinese,” said the Collector of Customs in prosecuting Edward Freeman, a sailor on the Marahia,' 'who' was found possessed of two tins when detectives raided a shop in Willis Street. The defence raised was that an-altercation occurred on board "between some Chinese, aricf one of them asked Freeman to take a parcel to the shop. When he got there he handed the parcel to the same Chinaman.., Detectives, camp in then and the Chjhiman' thrust the parcel- back on accused. The Collector of Customs said the retail value of the opium was be-tween,-£2O: and 4J25 a-tin. Magistrate Page .said that even if he accepted the evidence of Freeman as substantially correct it indicated that he was a party to smuggling. He imposed a fine of £2O. '• , :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 June 1926, Page 5
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148OPIUM SMUGGLING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 June 1926, Page 5
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