PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 February 1925, Page 7

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT.

BRITISH BOATS TAKEN. Coastguard officers captured nineteen prisoners, a British • schooner, three motor-boats, and liquor valued at more than £IOO,OOO at New York. The British schooner Petara, with seven prisoners and 6000 cases of alleged champagne, liqueurs aiid whisky, was amongst the vessels brought to the barge office. The seven prisoners on the Petara, a two-master, were captured after a 40-mile chase by the coastguard cutters Raritan and Seneca. The prisoners were held without bail and kept under heavy guard in the quarters of their ship. . , The gas sloop Bonito and her crew of two men are in custody at New London, Conn., having been captured twenty-two miles off Montauk Point by the destroyer Cassia, while the sloop was docked alongside the British schooner Hazel H. Herman, of Lunenburg, N.S., in rum row. The Bonito Was seized for proceeding into foreign waters without being duly registered. The Dick, a 42-knot hnotor-boat, was captured alongside the Petara and miles off Jones Inlet, on Tuesday. Six prisoners are held under £2OO bail each. The Petara is believed to have landed more than £1,000,000 worth of liquor during the last two years.