OPIUM SEIZURE
SMART CUSTOMS OFFICIALS WHAT. SECOND SEARCH REi VEALED. A smart piece of, work by two Customs officials, searchers A. H, Boland and B. Bacon, resulted laet night in the seizure of about 41b of "opium ot, the value of about £IOO on board the Dutch steamer Hermes, lying at Thorndon breastwork discharging oil loaded in Singapore. The vessel has a Chinese crew on board. The opium, which was found ingeniously concealed in the boatswain’s cabin, was in smokable form, but 1 instead of being packed in the usual tun was put up in a kind of tube of smaller capacity, this being apparently a new method of endeavouring to smuggle opium into the country. The boat had been previously searched, but a second visit was more successful, and the tact that a seizure of opium was made on the vessel in Auckland justified the officials’ second and successful search.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 7
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151OPIUM SEIZURE New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12196, 22 July 1925, Page 7
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