IN POSSESION OF OPIUM
CHINESE FINED AT NAPIER (By Telegraph-Press Association] NAPIER, This Day. Wong Sing, a market gardener, said to have traded systematically in opium was fined £SO this morning. Three half-pound tins of opium were found in his possession w'hen questioned on Saturday evening. The police said he had eluded them for some time. He had bought opium from a Chinese firm in Wellington.
Jack Yee. described as a well-known opium smoker, was fined £25 for being found in possession of opium smoking utensils.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1937, Page 2
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