EVADING CUSTOMS
SUBSTANTIAL FINE IMPOSED THE GOODS FORFEITED By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, November 25. Rudolph Friedlander was fined .£lOO at the Police Court ou a charge of having made an erroneous declaration to the Customs in respect of new carpets. Defendant's counsel pleaded guilty, stating that his client had acted very foolishly. Tho Collector of Customs stated that The defendant, on returning from England, "had his luggage passed. Then a bale of goods arrived, transhipped from Melbourne, and Friedlander declared he was quite sure there were no new goods in the bale; that they were carpets which had been in his possession for two or three years, and worth under .£lOO. When his attention J was called' to the .makers’ names on the carpets, he said they were the names of the cleaner in London. He was refused the delivery of the carpets, and next, day he admitted ho had maoe a nitstaKe. The carpet* were valued at £l2O. The Magistrate imposed a penalty of rnWO, and declindlf to consider a request for a remission of the fine, saying that the defendant was a well-to-do man. Th® carpets were forWWd
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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190EVADING CUSTOMS Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 54, 26 November 1921, Page 7
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