COMPROMISE EXPLAINED.
RECENT CUSTOMS CASE. When tho Estimates worn under di» cussion at an early hour tin's moruinpr, Mi - . Herrins mentioned Oio catt; of (ho Customs Department against the Australian Kodak Compnuv, Wcllinirlon. Ho slid (lie papers had staled that there were two claims for Ji20,000 eachj and thai the action was compromised on .£6OOO bring paid. This might have been, quilt) right, ait.d in the interests of Uifl ])ojWi''i!ii.'ii!, but .■.ojiie exploitation should bi> given as to (lie great difference between tho amount olnimod and that rocovered. Tho Hon. R. M'Kenzie said the irrit was for jKOMfi, and (ho amount of tho duty was .MIX). Alter (lie writ was issued, it was found (hat tho case could not conio on until (ho February sitlnnss of the Supreme Court. The company was an Australasian one, and a judgment against it in Xew Zealand conk! not bo enforced in Australia. It might take ita stock away from New Zealand. In view of these risks, (he Crown Law Oflioeiß advised that it would be best to mako the* arrangement wliich was eomo to, undo* which (ho Department' received JCGOOO.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 5 October 1911, Page 4
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187COMPROMISE EXPLAINED. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 5 October 1911, Page 4
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