LIQUOR SMUGGLING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 6 October 1922, Page 5

LIQUOR SMUGGLING.

METHODS OF BOOTLEGGERS,

BY CABLE—SRESb ASSOC! lit?" -COPY _!G"HT WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. Mr Ralph Day, who to-day resigned the office of prohibition director at New York, revealed the latest methods used by bootleggers to smuggle liquor into the United States. Mr Day de-; clared 29 aeroplanes were operating regularly between New York and the Canadian border in smuggling whisky, both land and seaplanes being used. They were equipped with trap bottoms, enabling them to drop contraband into > rivers when they suspected the prohibition agents were aware of their busi-1 ness. Airplanes were also used to; transfer liquor from ships. j