HAWKER FINED
ENDEAVOURING TO SMUGGLE GOLD AND SILVER COIN Wellington, Monday. A Chinese hawker, Chin Pak Yew (28), of Dunedin, was fined £25 and ordered to forfeit over £100 worth of silver and gold coins, when he was convicted in the Magistrate's C'ourt: to-day of attempting to export' £34 17s 6d in silver coin without a permit. He pleaded guilty. Counsel said defendant was to have sailed on the Monowai. He had a fairly heavy chest, which, on being searched, yielded £74 in gold coin and a little under two ounces of gold dust. Most of the gold coin was found concealed in two bars of laundry soap in the bottom of the chest. The silver coin was found in various articles of apparel in th'e chest, in the soap, and on defendant's person. Eor the defence it was stated that defendant was going to see relatives in China and was taking his savings with him, as he had done previously. Other Chinese who wished to send money to the homeland secreted the money in soap so that it would not be stolen.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 5
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183HAWKER FINED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 5
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