BOOT-LEGGING AT SEA.
“There’s fortunes in the liquor trade : right enough —running' it into the Unit- ! ed States these days,” a ship’s officer ; remarked to a Times reporter. This oi ' fleer has come from tlie West Indieand has seen the liquor running in full blast. Oue of the headquarters of the venturesome and lucrative traflie is on I a small island south of the Bermudas. I :?hips from Europe get rid of tlielr o.\j hilarating cargoes at the island. It is I carried to the mainland, about 90 miles I an hour. These launches run the risk, ! of course, or running into the patrols on I the American coast, but it is remarkable how they seem to miss the patrols and get the liquor through. This peculiarity was afterwards noticeable in connection with the official represson in the City of Orleans. A policeman was stationed at the door of a soft drinks shop which prior to prohibition was li censed to sell alcoholic liquors. lit spite this evdent precaution the sea- ! faring man went in and asked for i whisky. From a bottle under the counter the whisky was poured into a , glass. The price was 2d con is. and the quality was not the best. Summing up this sailor reckoned that so far as he could see prohibition in America had merely served to reduce the quality of whisky ami increase its price.
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Otaki Mail, 11 April 1923, Page 4
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