POLICE OUTWITTED
OPIUM DEN RAID (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A bole smashed by detectives in the ceiling of an alleged opium den in Grey's avenue in July of last year was used as an emergency exit by Chinese when the police again raided tho premises lat.* on Saturday night. When the police had succeeded in battering down the front door, they found no trace of opium, and only three solemn Chinese, but they could see several more quickly clambering over the adjoining housetops. No arrests were made.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 4
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