FOR THE COMPLEXION.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 4

FOR THE COMPLEXION.

» SAILORS AND FACE CREAM. o PILLAGE ON S.S. OTIRA. "Vanishing cream" which unexpectedly true to name figured in a cargo pillaging case at the Police Court to-day, when three seamen off the b.s. Otira were brought before J. W. Poynton, S.M., to explain how it was that customs officers had found in the lockers of three sailors .24 jars of perfumed face cream manufactured to adorn the toilet tables and to embellish thi complexions of members of the fair sex. The men were Kenneth Gunn (30), Charles Parker (36) and Norman Macaulcy (35), and they were charged with having embezzled the 24 jars of "vanishing cream" from the cargo of their ship. The case against them was that the chief officer, on visiting one of the holds while the ship was being discharged this week, found that a case of face cream had been pillaged, and a little later two customs searchers found a couple of dozen jars of this cream in the lockers of the accused men. They told the chief officer they had got it from a fireman who had since deserted, but when Detective Robertson took them in hand they said they had got the face cream from watersiders at Montreal. The magistrate remarked that both explanations could not be true, and probably neither was correct. He did not feel inclined to make the penalty in a form that would result in the men being left in this country, consequently they would be convicted of the theft and fined £5 apiece.