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Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1919, Page 4

The peregrinations of a barrel of ale, a Christmas gift from ta local brewery to the constables at a Wellington police station, which, by the order of a "high authority" was incarcerated in a padded cell, still provide a topic of discussion amongst the members of the force. The policemen, much to their disappointment, were not allowed to test the contents of tlie barrel, which was kept under "close arrest" until its fate should be determined. It now appears that just before the New Year orders were issued that the "dangerous prisoner"' should be returned to the source from which it came, as its at the police station was not to "good order .and police <jpeipline"' Accordingly the brewery \ms communicated with, and a dispatched to take the barrel. On its jourr|oy through the city, however, the wf£fending barrel disappeared, and it "is officially described as "lost in transit." A rumour is current that the barrel rolled into another police station, where it received a warm wel-