OPIUM HAUL.
VALUED AT ABOUT £3OOO. DISCOVERY~ON STEAMER. (Australian Press Association). Received September 26, 9.50 a.m. SYDNEY, Sept. 26. Two hundred and seventy-six tins of opium, valued at about were discovered to-day by Customs officers in a secret cupboard aboard the steamer Tanda.
The Tanda is lying at Woolloomooloo Bay. The illegal cargo which was concealed in a concrete bed in a linen chest, is one of the largest hauls that has been made for many years.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 26 September 1929, Page 7
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77OPIUM HAUL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 255, 26 September 1929, Page 7
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