WHISKY SEIZED.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1920, Page 6

WHISKY SEIZED.

INTENDED FOR AMERICA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Dee. 6. About midnight the Harbor Board chief custodian, Mr. Mason, who is also a special constable, observed a motorcar laden with what appeared to be luggage enter the gates of Queen's Wharf and proceed to the Marama. Mason and one of his assistants went to investigate, and the steward of the vessel told Mason the suit cases were luggage. Mason went down to the stewards' quarters and found two men employed on the vessel unpacking bottles of whisky from half-a-dozen suit enses and stowing the liquor in the lockers. The men produced a receipt, which was evidently bona fide, from a wine and spirit firm for payment for the whisky. Altogether 240 bottles, which Avere seized, Were found in the steward's quarters. The Mamma is to sail for San Fran* jcisco to-morrow, so that the liquor j would have been taken to the Califorjliian port. The motor car was making jits second visit to the Marama when the custodian became aware of the mission. Under the prohibition laws of the United States any attempt to get liquor ashore there may render the toaster of the vessel on which it is brought liable to a heavy penalty.