deink smuggling. OTTAWA, Juno 26. When tlio report of the Customs Committee, which disclosed the loss of large sums to the revenue through liquor smuggling to the United States, came before the Canadian House of Commons to-day for adoption, Mr Stevens Conservative member for Vancouer, moved an amedment censuring Mr. Boivin, the Minister of Customs, for certain acts in connection with the administration of Iris department. Mr. Stevens charged the Prime Minister, Air. Mackenzie King, with having been 'aware of the irregu.arities in the Customs Department a year ago and with taking no effective action to eliminate them. The Government, he he said, lied now elevated Air. Bureau, ■ the former Customs Minister, to the Senate, while officials who acted under his instructions had been dismissed. OTTAWA. June 26. Air. Boivin (in the debate on Air. Stevens’s censure motion) dedal ed that since he assumed office last autumn the regulations in respect ol liquor shipments from Canada, designed to prevent rum-running to the lmt--1 ed States, had been strictly enforced. ' s te p S had been taken by the Government to c-lieck smuggling and to pre- ‘ vent other abuses.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1926, Page 3
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