RUM-RUNNING.
BRITISH STEAMER. CAPTURED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Oct, 13. The largest liquor seizure in the history of prohibition enforcement on the yPacific Coast was effected by Government officers to-day, when they captured the British steamer Quadra, privately owned by a Vancouver company.' According to the San Francisco officers, the Quadra was the mother-ship of a huge rum fleet. She was captured six miles off the coast in the act of transferring liquor to smaller vessels. One of these was seized a few hours earlier and had Honor valued at £4OOO.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 October 1924, Page 5
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