SUCCESSFUL POLICE RAID
OPIUM SMOKING ALLEGED FIVE CHINESE ARRESTED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 19. Within the space of four or five minutes this afternoon a small party of police forced open five formidably barricaded dooi’s inside a house Haining street and arrested six Chinese on charges connected with opium smoking. A quantity of opium was found. The Chinese will appear before the court tomorrow. The outer door of the house was forced with a timber jack capable of lifting five tons. The police then progressed steadily through the house, breaking down five barricades, one after the othei. In a dark second-storey room five Chinese were found huddled in a corner. A thorough search for opium was carried out, and in the course of tips a concealed trapdoor in the floor of the room was discovered and when this was lifted the sixth Chinese was found crouching at the bottom of a 10-foot hole running alongside the chimney stack.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 8
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