OPIUM SMOKING.
CHLNiA'MEN FINED.
(Press Association.)
NELSON, Jan. 19
A Chinese market gardener at S toke was yesterday fined £5 and costs for smoking opium, and Is and costs for having smokable opium in his possession. The latter line was flight, as tlio material smoked was “yen slice,” or ashes of opium, whence only a cou.pl® of pipes’ full could be obtained. Another Chiniainan, the owner of the premises, escaped on a charge of .permitting opium smoking, as though cuuglit in a dazed state, obviously from the effects of smoking, he was not found in the act, and the Magistrate held that a.s (lie was not wide awake ho was probably unaware of what was going on.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2404, 20 January 1909, Page 5
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117OPIUM SMOKING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2404, 20 January 1909, Page 5
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