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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17957, 8 December 1932, Page 11

Prepared opium, ready for smoking, ail'd neatly wrapped in small packets, was seized by the Auckland police on Tuesday evening when they arrested a Chinese in Grey’s avenue. In the basement of a shop where he had been living a tin was found containing packets of opium 'concealed behind a loose brick in the wall. In regard to the Gas Company’s Christmas cake competition, which promises to he keenly contested, ovei 250 1 entry tonus having already been applied for, the company desires to make it clear to competitors that when the winner o f the prize (an R.G.I). New World Gas Cooker valued at £l7 10s) has already installed a. gas cooker which is giving .satisfaction to the consuinei and a replacement is not necessary, the company is prepared to give the success lid competitor other gas appliances to the value of the. cooker or if preferred the full cash value of the. prize as advertised, or as an alternative where a consumer has a. cooker on the bailment system part of the value of the prize may be applied to the payment of the amount due on the cooker and (he balance will lie paid out in cash. The concession will he allowed only to competitors who have installed in their houses a gas cooker and does not apnly to competitors who may use a friend’s gas cooker to enable them to comply with the conditions that the exhibit must be cooked on a giis range. ! '