ADULTERATING THE ATLANTIC.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 8

ADULTERATING THE ATLANTIC.

Liquor—good, indifferent, and very, very bad—the value of which, at the rate charged by illicit dealers, is estimated at .£10,000,000, is about to be spilled into the Atlantic Ocean by the authorities to get rid of it, reported the New York correspondent of the Daily Chronicle on July 14. It has all been seized in the process of enforcing the prohibition law. Rubbish barges laden with the strange cargo will be towed •far beyond the outer harbor, and the crews under police supervision, will’unite in the mixing of the most stupendous cocktail in history for the delectation of Father Neptune and Davy Jones, if in the next week or so passing British mariners should note disturbances somewhere in the Atlantic, and the zone they breathe shoo’d have a peculiar yet strangely familiar flavor, they will know that it is not because the 108,999,999 [inhabitants of this country are celebrating the revocation of the dry law. About the time this reservoir of ardent spirits is being thus disposed of, the authorities will sell the containers and vehicles in which it was seized. At pre sent these and the liquor are costing the city hundreds of pounds a day for storage in warehouses, unused buildings, and other structures. Those containers and vehicles range from fountain pens, ■hollow cranes, and bogus cigars to huge casks, and the vehicles from a perambulator to motor lorries and it RollsRoyce.