SMUGGLED SILVER
DISCOVERY ON HAKO
ARRIVED FROM NEW ZEALAND
MELBOUBNE, August ~2f The cargo steamer Piako, from,' Net*; Zealand, was searched on her arrival here and £298 worth of English silver was discovered secreted in the vessel'! forepeak. ; ■ . Customs officials seized ,the money, but failing proof of smuggling it maj] revert to the owners of the vessel.
CLAIM FOE EETUM
NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT]
(Received August;2s/1 p.m.) . SYDNEY, i This .ijia.fi Mr. L. J. Schmitt, N.Z. Government Trade Commissioner in. Australia, vtfr accordance with cabled instructions from Mr. Coates, Acting-Prims Minister, has lodged a claim: with thejCustoms authorities, under -section <-32 "of the Finance Act, 1930, for the ••return of the silver discovered abpjaifd tha Piako at Melbourne. Undsr the Act the silver becomes the property _bf the New Zealand Government. MjvSehmitt will see the master of the. Piako O* her arrival at Sydney on. Monday. ...
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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145SMUGGLED SILVER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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