HOUSE BARRICADED.
POLICE GET SURPRISE. CHINESE FINED £IOO. PERMITTING OPIUM . SMOKING. (By Telegraph—Press Association/ CHRISTCHURCH, July 13 Using batons, a lump of concrete and a large piece of wood, a party of constables forced their way into a bouse in Allen Street last night and arrested four Chinese. On their arrival the police found the house strongly barricaded. Two constables climbed up and broke an upstairs window. When inside they opened the back door. The doors inside the bouse were strongly bolted and some of them were blocked with sheets of irou.’ •' As a sequel to the raid A 1 Wing, the occupier of the bouse, Avas fined £IOO, in default three months’ imprisonment, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for permitting opiumsmoking on his premises. Three other Chinese were fined £2O and costs for being found on the premises. “It came as a surprise to the police to find that a place in Christchurch should be so heavily barricaded,” said Senior-Sergt. Fox. Accused, avlio Averc described as laundrymen, pleaded guilty.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 18240, 14 July 1931, Page 3
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