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ANNEXURE IV
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MANUFACTURE
IMPORTANT CASES
(1) On 18th January, 1973, officers of the Preventive Service raided the Luen Sang Farm at D.D. 119, Shui Tsiu San Tsuen, Yuen Long, New Territories. The farm consisted of several wooden huts surrounded by trees and paddy fields. As the Preventive Service officers were entering the farm two men ran from a hut inside the farm and escaped. The farm was searched and a man, YEUNG Man kwong (2799/2429/0342), was arrested. A large quantity of heroin, chemicals, heroin manufacturing equipment including a buchner flask and funnel, bowls, stirrers, basins and sieves, three blocks of morphine hydrochloride bearing the '999' trade mark, and three large packets of crushed morphine were seized. The total seizure from the farm consisted of 13.4794 kilogrammes of a mixture contain- ing 8.5615 kilogrammes of salts of esters of morphine, 8.585 kilogrammes of a mixture containing 7.653 kilogrammes of a salt of morphine and 42.62 litres of a solution containing 0.8513 kilogrammes of salts of esters of morphine. YEUNG was charged with Manufacturing a Dangerous Drug and Possession of Dangerous Drugs for the Purpose of Unlawful Trafficking. He was convicted and sen- tenced to 10 years imprisonment on each charge, sentences to run concurrently.
(YL/CRB/19/73)
(2) On the early morning of 31st January, 1973, officers of the Narcotics Bureau raided Hut No. 4, Lot Nos. 4-5 in D.D. 132, Po Tong Ha Village, Yuen Long, New Territories. The main door of the hut was locked but a light was visible in one of the rooms, The officers forcibly entered the hut and arrested two men who were attempting to escape. These were So Fat-cheung (5685/0154/ 4382) and CHAU Chik-ping (0719/2784/1627). The premises was searched and a quantity of heroin, barbitone, heroin pills and smoking paraphernalia was seized from a cockloft at the rear of the premises. From a small room under the cockloft, a large quantity of heroin manufacturing equipment including a metal buchner funnel, flasks, bowls and stirrers, was seized. Finally, from the main room of the
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The entrance to the Luen Sang Farm, Yuen Long, New Territories.
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