CIGARETTES PILLAGED

Chronicle (Levin), 2 May 1946, Page 5

CIGARETTES PILLAGED

-Press Association

| GANADIAN CONSIGNMENT

By Telegraph-

WELLINGTON, April 3.0, ' - Eighfy thotiaarid ',Gaiv0i^if;-.cigav'etrte9 j of :tlr& 1 Crystal Pare after "her' arrival in Wel- ! lington. A large quhntity has beeu j recovered by the wharf police, but most ' of them are unfit to smoke. | About 30,000 of the -pillaged eigari ettes were -placed in a large linen sac.k i after they had been taken from the cases in whicli they were stacked in the ; holds, and the sack was tied. under the wharf, apparently with the idea of leaving them there until the hue aud cry had died down. The police discovered them 011 Saturday morning and recovered them in a dinghy b.v whieh : timo the tide had eovered the sack and . the cigar ettes were worthless. A search was then made of the ship and in the stcering room in the stern another 30,000 were reeovered. Many ' of the cartons were eovered with oil ; and grease, but most ot the cigarettes were in good condition. Apparently, as a direet result of the police search a number of other cartons were thrown : overboard, and on Sunday '' a police , lounch recovered a large quantity hopelessly ruined in the liarbour. .