HEAVY FINE
WIRELESS SET SMUGGLED
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■ AUCKLAND, August 18; Humphrey Owen Stevens was fined £25 for smuggling a wireless pet, valued at £2O, from: a Vancouver steamer at Auckland! , The duty payable. was £9 8s Bd. .... '
He pleaded guilty, bdt counsel said that the plea would have -been n.ot, guiltv were it not that the Customs /Act said that -an absence, of intend to. defraud was no defence. The Magistrate imposed the -minimum fine, and ordered the forfeiture of the set.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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85HEAVY FINE Hokitika Guardian, 19 August 1933, Page 5
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