WOMEN WHO SMUGGLE.
16 PAIRS OF STOCKINGS. Customs officers on the Ulster Free State border noticed recently that an increasing number of travellers seemed in need of slimming exercises. A woman so out rivalled everybody else in avoirdupois that the official who asked if she had anything to declare looked at her twice. She was asked to visit tho Customs office. Here she confessed. Tho astonishing discovery was then made that she was wearing 16 overalls, three pairs of corsets, six blouses, and two pullovers. An official stated that women were most ingenious smugglers. " Ono woman," he Siiid, " managed to get on to her legs no fewer tiiaa 16 pairs of silk stockings."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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113WOMEN WHO SMUGGLE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20372, 28 September 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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