COCAINE TRAFFIC.
INCREASED PENALTIES.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, August 9. In a case in which a coloured man engaged in tbe cocaine traffic, and who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, the prosecuting counsel stated that owing to the cocaine habit increasingly ensnaring victims, the Home Office had raised the penalties of traffickers to a maximum ol £SOOO or ten years' imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 8
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64COCAINE TRAFFIC. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 8
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