FOUND IN POSSESSION OF OPIUM
CHINESE FINED £5O (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, October 7. Wong Ming, a Chinese, was fined £5O on a charge of being found in possession of prepared opium when he appeared before Mr E. C. Lewey, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. Default was fixed at three months’ imprisonment with hard labour. “The Court has had too much experience of these matters not to take them seriously,” said the Magistrate. “There is the danger of contamination.” Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike said officers visited the premises occupied by Ming. They found Ming in a stupid condition and they also found the usual paraphernalia for opium smoking. Ming had not been before the Court previously but the police were convinced he was a carrier of opium.
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Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 11
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