FINES TOTAL £322
OPIUM SMOKING THREE CHINESE IN COURT (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHUKtdI, this day.. Following a police raid oil premises in Ferry road on Saturday, two Chinese appeared, in the Police Court on charges connected with opium smoking and a third was charged with being unlawfully on premises. Fines totalling £322 were imposed by Mr. B. C. Levvey, S.M.
Ah Yee was charged (1) that being the occupier of premises he permitted them to be used for the smoking of prepared opium; (2) that he was found in the possession of prepared opium; (3) that he was found in the possession of utensils used for the purpose of smoking prepared opium. He was fined £2OO en the first charge and £SO on each of the others. It was stated that be had been fined £IOO four years ago.
On three charges. Yee See was fined a total of £2O.
For being found on the premises, Ah Low was fined £2.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 11
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161FINES TOTAL £322 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18923, 27 January 1936, Page 11
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