PREMISES RAIDED BY POLICE
TWO CHINESE ARRESTED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 24. Hacksaws and other tools were used by detectives tonight when they forced their way into 91 Greys avenue, Auckland, seized a quantity of opium found on the premises and arrested two Chinese. A crowd of people gathered to watch. Detective-Sergeant Alpin was in charge of the raiding party. Two detectives mounted a ladder placed against a veranda rail on the first floor, and, with hacksaws, attacked heavy iron bars in front of a window. Meanwhile, others made an assault upon a steel lined door at the back. Within a few minutes the bar had been cut through at the front window, and a detective scrambled through the gap and let his fellow officers in through the back door. After a thorough search of the premises, the police took the Chinese to the Central Police Station.
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Southland Times, Issue 24369, 25 February 1941, Page 5
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