OPIUM SMUGGLING
CHINESE_SEAMAN CAUGHT ' FINE OF £2OO IMPOSED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Nov. 6. Arrested last night as he was coming through the wharf gates, Tan Han Fong, aged 35, employed on a large liner now in port, was fined £2OO by Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day for importing to New Zealand a quantity of prepared opium." He pleaded guilty. The police said a search revealed that the accused had four Jib tins and 14 2oz tins of opium strapped with rubber bands around his body and legs. The Collector of Customs said that Tan belonged to a ship which had recently arrived from the East. Tan told the police he purchased the opium at Singapore, but would not say from whom he got it. He said he saw a Chinese in Auckland yesterday, who was to take the opium, but did not know his name. The value of the opium here would be between £6O and £IOO. . The magistrate ordered immediate execution of the court order and forfeiture of the opium.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 3
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