Banana Thieves At Apia
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Apia, Jan. 24.
THE banana steamer Waikawa had temporarily left Apia harbour owing to the bad weather, without picking up her load of 4000 cases of bananas, stacked on the Customs wharf ready for ship ment. At night two native policemen were posted on the wharf to guard the cases of fruit.
Alas, the early morning found 20 cases of bananas gone, stolen right under the eyes of the guardians of the peace, who, of course, had seen nothing of the thieves.
But as a memento, the artful offenders had, after emptying the bananas out of the cases, left the empties floating about near the Customs wharf. There is only very slight hope of catching the criminals.
What the two native constables did dur ing the night is somewhat of a mystery, but some passers-by assert that they heard noises akin to snoring in the neigh bourhood of the Customs house.