SUGAR IN LEATHER.
A Customs Contention
Press Association —Copyright. London, January 11. The Customs officials in London stopped large parcels of Australian leather because the export certificates showed they contained glucose sugar, analysis showing that most of the sides contained about 7 per cent, of sugar and one side 22 per cent., on which the Customs officials are claiming duty, thus delaying delivery to the consignees. It is considered that export certificates are unnecessary, as they are not used for American or Argentine leather, which contain sugar, but enter free.
Mr Coghlan has written to the Customs asking for the same treatment for all imported leathers,
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8713, 12 January 1907, Page 2
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106SUGAR IN LEATHER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8713, 12 January 1907, Page 2
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