CHILLY VIGIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 July 1928, Page 9

CHILLY VIGIL.

POL ICEM A X IN QUICKS ANDS

NABROW ESCAPES

MELBOURNE, July 16

Shivering through 17 nights in a ceaseless vigil-at iCnunon’s Greek, near Western port. Bay, Constables Nottman anil Mp.Curach raided a shecl and a t'ariner’s house and seized goods valued at £350 and arrested ‘two men. They had to cross a •creek to get to the farm, but at low tide, owing to quicksands on either side, it was impassnlble. A boat of rickdty structure had to be employed. On more than one occasion the men on leaving the boat found themselves in the .quicksands and were in extreme danger. They were in the scrub for a week; before thev saw anyone. Once during the second week they tried to walk across the quicksands, but. with the, first step they sank almost to their waists and only extricated themselves with difficulty. Late one night they found themselves marooned in the boat on a sandbank in the middle of the creek. Fearing to trust themselves to the quicksands, they remained in the boat for eight hours, when (lie tide took them off. On the seventeenth day of their vigil the constables. who had been unable even to shave, 'cro's'ked the cre.ek for the 40th time.

John Smith, 64, labourer, has been charged with unlawful possession o ! f motor parts, and Picoleu Nicholell'a, 44. farmer, with having unlawful possession "of motor parts and firearms.