"BLACKETEERS"
HUGE PROFITS REPORTED
SMUGGLING IN OLD IRELAND
"Blacketecrs" —black market racketeers —in London, Manchester and Glasgow are behind a big smuggling wave now sweeping over Ireland. The profits range from 500 to. 1000 per cent. Hundreds of people have become professional smugglers, and recent seizures on the border of goods being smuggled from Ulster to Eire included thousands of tons oif flour, 50 tons of coffee. 100 chests of tea, 10 tons of carbide, 750,000 candles, thousands of gallons of oil and 50 lorry-loads of coal. Among the luxuries seized w T ere thousands of pounds worth of jewellery and watches, 85,000 pairs of silk stockings and other rationed clothing", and large quantities of cosmetics. Thousands of cattle which were smuggled into Ulster, were seized and sold for the Ministry of Food. Eire an cattle fetch higher prices in Northern Ireland.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 2
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142"BLACKETEERS" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 11, 2 February 1942, Page 2
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