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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17882, 1 October 1923, Page 4

. WKon a visitor frbm outside invades the' King Country ~;; territory) it is a usual thing for tales of sly-grog selling to be told- (remarks the "Wanganut 5 Chronicle"); A, Waiigaritii-ite" who was, there last.; seek heard- the latest. A 'Maori conceived the brilliant idea of getting his grog over the border id a barrel labelled .'"Motor Oil A." Unfortunately for the would-be-revel-ibr, his batrei became cdhfused at the railway siding with a■ r , genuine barrel of oil. When the native discovered the mistake, he. adopted '< Sherlock Holmes' >, methods to retrieve' his loSSjVand was successful in tracing his-grog to the garage of a well-to-do farmer. -.On inqUiiy, from one of the womenfolk lie learned that the •' owner was - away. '' Well, where te caff* ho"'asked.. 'The car! It's at Olmkune being repaired. Mr ran it over a bank last night." "Py gdliy. No; wOnder. Td d— thing must • ha' bin stunned 1"'..."'