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Waikato Independent, Volume V, Issue 320, 5 January 1907, Page 5

Seventeen deck bands of the steamer Oswestry Grange, trading between Glasgow and New Yealand, were charged at Bristol with the theft of whisky, cocoa, and cornflower, valued at about £2O, from the steamer. The men seemed to have had a wild orgy in the forecastle at night, several of them being in a state of stupor for two or three days. One man had made a pillow of 56 packets of cocoa. Eight of the prisoners were sent to gaol for six weeks,