Police and customs say their largest ever haul of of cocaine shows drug smugglers are desperate to expand the market for the illegal drug in New Zealand. Yesterday police caught four foreigners who were trying to retrieve 46kgs of cocaine from a hidden compartment in the stern of a container ship which had just berthed in the port of Tauranga. Drug detectors say they've seen a spike in the number of people using cocaine in workplaces in the past two months and the size of the the seizure shows how much demand is growing.
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