ALLEGED OPIUM SMUGGLING
COADIERCIAL TR WELLER ARRESTED. l Per Press Assocuiti*::: WELLINGTON, August IS. The sample cases of William Alfred A lusters, commercial traveller, who arrived from Sydney by the Alceraki, were searched by 'Customs officers to-day. It is stated that under a false bottom of one ease were found one hundred halfpound tins of opium, valued at £3OO. Masters was arrested subsequently, and bailed out. He will appear before the Alagistrate in the morning.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2584, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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75ALLEGED OPIUM SMUGGLING Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2584, 19 August 1909, Page 5
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