Heavy Penalty for Defrauding the Customs.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, March 8. Another seizure has been made by the Customhouse officials. This time on the premises of a jeweller named John Robert Rowlands, carrying on business in Collins street. The stock, valued at L9OO, was seized on the grounds that Rowlands had evaded duty on imported jewellery, and it is alleged that the evasions, which have been extending over a period of several years, amounted to L 350. Defendant was ordered to pay the latter amount and was fined one thousand guineas.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1895, Page 2
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92Heavy Penalty for Defrauding the Customs. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1895, Page 2
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