BOUGHT WHISKY, WAS GIVEN STONES
WESTPORT, August 26. Pillnee, as almost daily evidence demotis! rat es, is i'ast being laised to ihe , .-talu.- oi' a cral'l. An e.xeelient exaniple rejioses at the niomcnt in the store or Ale-sr- I'-iiiie and Coy., mercliants. It arrived in Westport passing itself off as a case of xvhiskv. iruleed the vensindlitinle had been so well maintained that the ca.-e was aceejited and passed by the Cnstoms in Wellington as true to label. This tuorning when the case. uinong others, was being lifted i'roin bond bv the lirni 's carter, he thougin iie detected a rattle or suspicious unbalanced heaxiness about it and put it asitle to be opened by the local Customs olticer. Prising off of the Jid le vealed a consignment of ncatlv paekeu stoaes but no xvhisky — not a bottle. The dozeu had been lifted and the case skill'ully rejdaced so as to p reserve the exact wi iglit of lllbs. with binding rustored and all the markings in order. The stones weri; wrapjied in portions oi English uewsjiapers and the whole was topped off with a decrepit seaman's jer.-ey as a linal preeaution against betraying movement inside.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 August 1947, Page 5
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