SUBSTANTIAL FINE.
ATTEMPTING TO IMPORT OPIUM
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. At the Police Court to-day Kong Quing, a Chinese, who was arrested yesterday for attempting to import opium into the Dominion, was fined £l5O, or nine months’ imprisonmentCounsel said that defendant was a poor man, and had fallen to temptation ,vhen it was suggested to him in China ,r. he should bring opium to New Zealand.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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68SUBSTANTIAL FINE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 242, 11 September 1929, Page 7
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