Cigarettes
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Secret Source of American Cigarettes
SYDNEY Customs men are still puzzled as to how 11,000 Ameri can cigarettes got on board MV Malaita during her March voyage to New Hebrides, Solomons and New Guinea.
They found the cigarettes con cealed under canvas lockers and coils of rope when the vessel reached Sydney at the end of March. But they naturally did not find who put them there.
Customs officials remarked (somewhat sadly) that the BSIP and Rabaul did not yield much con traband these days. It is thought that the cigarettes may have come from Hong Kong or that somewhere along the route they were trans shipped from an American vessel.