THEFT OF OPIUM.
YOUTHS CHARGED. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 15. A youth named Charles Alovsius Wilkinson, a laboratory assistant at Victoria University, was charged at the Police Court with the theft of opium valued at £SO, the property of the Government. Harold Fairchild Pobar was charged with receiving. According to the prosecution the Customs Department in 1915 forwarded a quailtit,, of opium to the university for the alkaloids to be extracted for use in military hospitals and hospital ships. Wilkinson had access to the opium, the residue of which had been left in a barrel in a locked storeroom. Accused admitted taking several tins, stating that he had heard students say that a lot of money was going to wasteThe opium was given to Pobar who sold it to Chinese, the proceeds being divided. The police visited the premises of the Chinese who were alleged to be purchasers but found nothing Wilkinson pleaded guilty. He said he was seventeen years of age. Pobar gave him £3O as his half share of the sales. Pobar also pleaded guilty. Each was committed to the Supreme Court lor sentence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16684, 16 March 1922, Page 5
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