CHINESE PREMISES
OPIUM FOUND. FINE OF £25. (Per United Press Association.) Palmerston North, August 12. Seven ounces of opium were included in the haul from a police raid on Chinese premises, the occupier of which was fined £25, and eight other Chinese, for being on the premises were fined £2 each in the Magistrate’s Court. Disorderly behaviour at a dance and an assault on the doorkeeper resulted in a number of youths appearing, Algar Roy Douglas Mason and Angus Arnold Milne being sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour for assault. William Anderson was fined £2, in default 14 days’ imprisonment for assault, and Charles Johnston and Mason, Milne and Anderson £2 for disorderly behaviour. Mason was also convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and fined £5 for trespassing on a racecourse.
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Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 8
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134CHINESE PREMISES Southland Times, Issue 25361, 13 August 1935, Page 8
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