FAMOUS RUM=RUNNER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 July 1928, Page 10

FAMOUS RUM=RUNNER.

AI ALA HAT TO BE SOLD

FiYE YEARS IN LIQUOR I'll-ADE

.The- auxiliaay schooner iMalaiuit, uTricu; has tor tue laiyt nve years oefied ah en-oi-ts or tae United states prev-m----t.‘ r e fleet to capture -her, us to be sold. Since 1923, ween she- embarked in the liquor trade., sky has keen the goat, ana anii;ltion of every otfdcer of the revenue fiect. \\ lien jshe, emeiged from Yanor Viet oi-fa, the rVlailahat was invariably met at Cape Flattery by tire rum. chasers, and escorted here anti til tire in the Pacific, or up and down the coast. lint she was never once apprehended. The .VLulahat’s n-amia wots a. by:word for daring and good liquor .in the clubs and roadhouses from San Diego to Seattle. She never faiileid -her pat-ronw.-Manned, by a sturdy British crew, who kept her secret well 1 , she took all the risks of detection and capture. Her most .famous trip was early last year, when, the rum-running 'base halving shifted, temporarily from Vancouver to Tahiti, she went to isiea with a cargo of liquor insured' for £200,800. Every unit in the preventive fleet was on the watch. fo;r her. The fastest boats in the fleet trailed her to Tahiti and back, but thev lost her somewhere off the California coast, and, when they picked her up again, she was “dry’’ to the lowest plank of her bottom ho’disi.' It was the Mailahat that, when her sister sli p was held a.t Victoria, British Columbia, fully laden, to answer .some

- .Cation* about her cargo to the Canadian commission on smuggling, met a > 'Hons shortage in Christmas liquor at i. s AimelC's. and the film colony. Now the Mai a hat has taken the pledge and goes back to the peaceful aveuu? of commercial endeavour. But her task done.

The Malahat- set an example for dari ii,g that, wore the preventive fleet down till now one rarely hears of its activities. The Malahat and' her kind were re,id a. tribute when it was amnciuncod that there wins a plenitude of the “best cu n t-h” at. Kansas City dm-imr.tne Republican convention, at which the mwtyb “dry” plank was endorsed.