Contraband Hidden On Children
(N.Z. Press Association Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) MELBOURNE, April 17. Customs officers found hundreds of pounds worth of contraband goods hidden on five young children from a migrant ship as they landed at Station Pier yesterday. Three of the children, boys aged 14, nine, and five years, with their mother and a man accompanying her, were found with 11 18-carat gold bracelets wrapped around their limbs.
Two other four-year-old boys were found with eight bottles of liqueur essence sown into their clothes. Last night a senior Customs official said it was one of the biggest hauls of contraband made in Melbourne for some years.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28256, 18 April 1957, Page 16
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