EXAMINING CARGOES
CONTRABAND CHECK WORK OF COMMITTEE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY. Oct. 27. Mr. Justice Morton has accepted the post of deputy-chairman of the contraband committee established by the Ministry of Economic Warfare. The function of this committee, of which Lord Finlay is the chairman, is to decide whether the cargoes of ships calling at British contraband control bases are to be detained as suspected contraband or released. On the average, the committee deals with about 80 ships weekly.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 6
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81EXAMINING CARGOES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 6
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