POSSESSION OF OPIUM.
ARREST AT AUCKLAND. MEMBER OF SHIP’S GREW. AUCKLAND, Friday. Investigation by the police of the suspected importation of opium from Sydney resulted in the arrest yesterday afternoon of a member of the crew of the steamer Maunganui. The police have for some time entertained suspicion of a large traffic in the drug, and the Maunganui has been closely watched on recent trips. The man had in his possession three tins of prepared opium, each Bontaintng half a pound of the drug. The marketable value of this is about £l4 a tin. NIGHTWATCHMAN ON VESSEL* TO PAY FINE OF £125. /nv Telegraph.—Press ..Association.) (By a eiegrap AUCKLA j s t D> Frlday . Frank Clifford, aged 41, nightwatchman on the steamer Maunganui, wat fined £125 or three months’ imprisonment for importing opium into th» Dominion.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18027, 23 May 1930, Page 6
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