SCHOONER ISABEL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21702, 18 January 1934, Page 6

SCHOONER ISABEL

SEIZURE OF GOODS OWNER-MASTER'S STATEMENT Police and customs, officials, on the day following the arrival at Sydney, of the schooner Isabel, searched the Randwick home of Mrs. W. H. Weeks, wife of the owner-master of the vessel, on board which 30 cases of goods had been seized." They did not complete their investigations that day. Mr. Weeks stated to the Customs Department that the goods seized had been the stock of a chemist's shoo which he had owned in Norwich. England, and they had been placed on board for the personal use of Mrs. Weeks. The department was assured that there had been no" intention to de-< ceive.

Members of the crew stated that such portions of the stock which were of use, such as soap and tooth paste, had been employed throughout the voyage. Considerable quantities of such goods had been presented to the natives on Adam's Island, in the Marquesas, in return for the hospitality which they had <?'i:;::..,od when the schooner called there after a voyage of 110 days from Panama. Mr. Lawrence Weeks, son of the owner-master, said that the natives of Adam's Island had not been able to do enough for the of the schooner. Within half an hour of her arrival at the tiny island, they had brought out a number of outrigger canoes loaded with fruit and vegetables. Mr. Weeks had been so pleased with his reception that he had insisted upon making somet return for such hospitality.