ALLEGED OPIUM SMOKING
. POLICE FIND HOUSE BARRED. SEVEN CHINESE ARRESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Oct. 3. Detectives found a Chinese house in Grey’s Avenue so strongly barred last night that they used axes to chop their way to the interior of the, premises, where, it is alleged, opium was being smoked. Five doors had iron bars fixed on their inner sides and barbed wire Was used to make the entrance more difficult. Seven Chinese were in one room, where lamps were burning. All were arrested. In the Polie Court this morning, Ah Chin was charged with being tlie°occupier of the house, and six others with being unlawfully in possession of prepared opium. All were remanded to October 8.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1929, Page 7
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