Five large shipping cases, unloaded from the steamship Arabic at New York and labelled bowling pins and balls,- to be transhipped to China, were found to contain no less than £100-,000 sterling worth of narcotics. Federal agents became suspicious recently after several such shipments of equipment of hardwood alleys had been observed, all of them consigned to China, and decided to search the next lot, with the above result. It is a remarkable fact, comments a Sydney journal, that a large proportion of motor accidents occur on good strips of road. What is the reason? On dangerous and busy streets drivers go slowly and carefully, and are ready for emergencies. But on a good road some drivers delight in "opening out," believing they have a clear run. They forget, however, that coming in another direction ma/ bi • dxiTsr wis has tiam asms ids*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 205, 30 August 1926, Page 15
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