BLACK MARKET
SUPPLIES OF LIQUOR
AUSTRALIAN CAMPAIGN
Black marketing threatened to assume immense proportions in Australia, particularly in liquor, until special squads were detailed to clean up the racket, the Australian Minister of Trade and Customs, Senator R. V. Kcane, said in Wellington today.
"Peddlers of poisoned liquor battened on Allied troops who came to assist us in throwing back the Japanese, and Customs men during their investigations of nefarious operations uncovered' some amazing details," he said:
Even Chicago in its palmiest days would have been shamed by the racketeering which existed. Tens of thousands of pounds were extorted from servicemen by these parasites, who had organised wide-spread supply and distribution centres.
Supplies of black market liquar had been transferred from State to State by car and railroad, disguised as innocent commodities, and in some instances even planes had been used. The evil had been largely eradicated and Australia today compared more than favourably in this respect with other countries at war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 149, 26 June 1944, Page 3
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