WAR ON SMUGGLERS
CAMPAIGN OPENED TN IRELAND LONDON, January 19. The Irish Free State Government has' decjhujed wauf on smugglers. A special staff of searchers at the ports, it was announced, would net only examine the luggage of passengers hut ivould be empowered to search persons. The campaign was to be directed not 'po muSli against professional smugglers but rather against amateurs, who brought over dutiable goods concealed! in their luggage or clothing. “One of the chief difficulties of customs officials is caused by persons who wear new clothes and hope they will escape notice,” an official said. “People also think that once they have worn clothes they are not expected to pay duty on them. That is not so. Clothes, however old, are subject to duty if bought outside the Free State.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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133WAR ON SMUGGLERS Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1933, Page 7
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