OPIUM HIDDEN IN SHIP’S HOLD.
CUSTOMS OFFICERS WERE SUSPICIOUS. (Special to the “Star.”) WELLINGTON, May 18. A Customs officer found about £6O worth of refined opium secreted in one of the holds of the oil vessel Pleiodon, while she w T as discharging oil from Singapore at the Burnham wharf yesterday.
The opium contained in tins wrapped in canvas and was found among some, drums of oil in a lower hold. Several watersiders were at the time engaged in discharging the drums. The Pleiodon, apart from the officers and engineers, is tnanned by thirtynine Chinese. Under the circumstances, and seeing that the vessel came from an Eastern port, the Customs searchers made a thorough overhaul. The identity of the owner of the opium is a mystery and is likely to remain so. Under the provisions of the new Act anyone convicted of bringing opium into the Dominion is liable to a minimum fine of £l5O, or twelve months’ imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18466, 18 May 1928, Page 8
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