DEALING IN OPIUM
FINE OF £350.
CHINESE CONVICTED.
(Per United Press Association.) Dunedin, June 15.
In the Police Court, George Fong was fined £350 on a charge of dealing in prepared opium. Charges of selling and of having smoking apparatus in his possession were dismissed. Default was fixed at six months’ imprisonment, seven days being allowed in which to find the fine. Security for appeal was fixed at ten guineas. In announcing the conviction the Magistrate referred to the fact that 24 tins of opium were found in Fong’s possession, 21 of which were parcelled, to correspondence which seemed to indicate inquiries for opium, to the large sum banked, and to the list of dangerous drugs in his possession and also to his attempt to bribe the police and his admission that he received 2/- per tin. All were factors in the decision to convict.
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Southland Times, Issue 25313, 17 June 1935, Page 6
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