LIQUOR FOR 'FRISCO.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2125, 6 December 1920, Page 6

LIQUOR FOR 'FRISCO.

ATTEMPT AT SMUGGLING DISCOVERY ON WELLINGTON WHARVES. WHISKY TAKEN ON LINE& AT MIDNIGHT. Preat Association. WELLINGTON, December 6. About midnight, the Wellington Harbour Board's chief custodian, Mr Mason, who is also'a special constable, observed a motor-car, laden with what appeared to be luggage, enter Queen's Wharf gates, and proceed to the Union Steam Ship Co.'s liner Marama. Mr Mason and one of his assistants went to investigate. A steward of the vessel told Mason that the suit cases were luggage. Mason went down to' the stewards* quarters, and found two men employed on the vessel unpacking bottles of whisky from half-a-dozen suit cases, and stowing the liquor in lockers. The men produced a receipt, which was evidently bona fide, jfrom a wine and spirit firm for payIment for the whisky. Altogether, '240 bottles, which were seized, were I found in the stewards' quarters. The Marama is to sail for San Francisco to-morrow, so that the liquor would have been taken to the 'Californian port. The motor-car was making its second visit to the Marama when the custodian became aware of its mission. Under the Prohibition laws of the United States, any attempt to get liquor ashore there may render the master of the vessel on which it is brought liable,to a heavy penalty.