LEFT FOR PRISONERS
TOBACCO AND OPIUM FINES IN CITY COURT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON", this day. Found late at night in the vegetable garden of Mount Crawford prison, "Ah Ling, a Chinese, with aliases, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day through an interperter to a charge of* being in possession of prepared opium and to leaving about the grounds of the prison where Chinese prisoners usually arc employed, letters, tobacco and opium. The superintendent of the prison, said Senior-Sergeant Dempsey, had asked him to say that the prison authorities were troubled 'by men entering the grounds" and secreting property to be found by ]irisoners. On the first charge, the accused was fined £25, and on the second he Was fined £lO. In default he was sentenced to goal for three months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15
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132LEFT FOR PRISONERS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15
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