UP 200 PER CENT.!
AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS ENFORCED HONESTY (United P*A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. noon. SYDNEY, To-day. Under the new Customs regulations, which commenced to operate in January last, under which passengers from abroad must declare their luggage in the form of a statutory declaration, the Customs revenue shows an increase of over 200 per cent., compared w • previous corresponding peric i The Minister <. >ms. commenting on this, sta - that, the change also had a good moral effect, and curtailed the activities of the small but, very enterprising minority of travellers who hitherto have not hesitated deliberately to lay themselves out to defraud the department.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19280412.2.129
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 13
Word Count
104UP 200 PER CENT.! Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 327, 12 April 1928, Page 13
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in