THREATS OF PROCEEDINGS. A Congressman has sent a telegram to President Coolidge drawing his attention to the “searching o'f innocent citizens,” and desribing the incident as ‘‘the most outrageous insolence of the bureaucracy we have ever had in America.” Many of those whose pockets were slapped protested violently and threatened proceedings against the Customs men. The Commissioner of Customs at Washington made the significant remark: “It is something that could hardly have been anticipated in Washington,” and he .suggested that the matter would be thoroughly investigated*
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1928, Page 6
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86Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1928, Page 6
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