BULKY PILLOW GIVES CUSTOMS AGENTS CLUE TO SMUGGLED SILK.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 20. A. bulky pillow led to the apprehen si on of Yee Yuk, a Chinese, aged 42, who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court on a charge of having attempted to smuggle ashore twelve pieces of silk valued approximately at £73. The Collector of Customs said that Yee Yuk arrived by the Maheno from Sydney on Tuesday. Among the luggage he brought ashore were three pillows, one of which appeared rather bulky to the Customs searcher, who said to accused: “This is a hard pillow you have got.” Yee Yuk replied thaj he liked a hard pillow to sleep on. In the pillow the Customs officer found three rolls of silks, and five invoices in accused’s travelling case showed that he had twelve pieces altogether. The other nine pieces were found subsequently sewn inside a quilt. Accused was fined £25 and the goods were forfeited.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 6
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