RAID ON CHINESE
FINES FOR OPIUM SMOKING I Per United Press Association ) WELLINGTON, September 13. Two Chinese were arrested early this morning when police raided premises at 21 Haining street. A large crowd of Chinese watched the efforts of the police to break into the house, which waa strongly barricaded. A quantity of apparatus alleged to have been used for the purpose of smoking opium waa found. The arrested men appeared in the court this morning, when Jack Nam was fined £SO for permitting the premises to be used for the purpose of smoking opium, and £5 for obstructing Kir. police when they made the raid. The on<y <? f her person found on the premises was a chinaman, who waa convicted and fined £l2 10s for, being there to smoke opium.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22058, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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