OPIUM SMUGGLING.
WELLINGTON. June 24. “This man is ovidentlv dealing in opium and supplying it to Chinese,” said the Collector of Customs in prosecuting Edward Freeman, a sailor on the Marama, who was found to be in possession of two tins of the drug wjien detectives raided a Chinese shop in Willis street. Tho defence raised was that an altercation occurred on board between some Chinese, and one of them asked Frqpman to take a narcel to a shop. When he got there he handed the parcel to the same Chinaman. The detectives came in then, and the Chinaman thrust tho parcel back on accused. Tho Collector of Customs said the retail valuo of opium was between £2O and £25 a tin. The Magistrate (Mr E. Page, S.M.) said that, even if he accepted the evidence of Freeman ns substantially correct, it, indicated that he was a partv to smuggling, and he imposed a fine of £SO.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3772, 29 June 1926, Page 76
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