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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 14 October 1915, Page 5

"Would it not strike you as peculiar that a wharf 'labourer, working sweatily among bales, cases and bags/should l>e wearing silk• stockings?" asks the "Post's" Australian horrespondent And wearing three pairs at a time! It certainly interested some Customs officials at Melbourne when they learned that a "wliarfie" toiling at ship's side was thus luxuriously attired as regarded his knotty They investigated, and found tnal apart from ■the man with tfae three pairs of silk stockings, other men working in connection with the same ship had about Ibem large quantities of choice ladies' silk underwear (no details given), and that one cf them had padded out his trousers witfa no fewer than seventeen pairs of highly fashionable stockings, packed in to prevent his leis from being chafed by the edges of the cases—so he said! As the result, six wharf labourers have been arrested on the •charge of having been in possession of "un-Customed goods, being part of the «argo of the, P. and O. liner liner jThyber.