MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 77, 14 March 1912, Page 5

MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN.

“UNDER THE OLD APPLE TREE.” Ashburton, Mar. 13. The “Guardian” reports a successful sly-grog raid on the part of the local police in which a most ingenious “plant” was revealed and a large amount of liquor secured.' It seems that Sergeant Fouhey and four constables this afternoon visited a suspected house in Peter street, opposite the Baptist Tabernacle, and not far from the post office, and, after unsuccessfully searching the dwelling turned their attention to the garden. They drew no blood in the likely places, but after some time one of the constables tried digging, and turned up at the foot of an apple tree a nice clean bottle of "Johnny Walker.” Thus heartened the fossicking was actively renewed, and diligence was rewarded by the finding of bottles and flasks concealed one by one under the vegetation in all directions. Some were discovered amongst tomato plants, others in the turnip tops, and flowers sheltered many, but the greatest number reposed beneath tufts of ordinary grass not more than a foot high, and where the pasture was inclined to droop to one side. That great care had been exercised in the matter was evident, for in no case was glass visible below the vegetation. The sergeant is of the opinion that of all the plants yet discovered in Ashburton, and they have been many and novel, this is easily the most ingenious. The quantity of liquor seized totalled about three and a half dozen bottles and flasks.