SMUGGLING IMPORTERS
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS. OVER TWO MILLIONS LOST IN REVENUE. By Gable.—Press I Lssociat.o7l,—Copyright New York, October 12. It is reported that Mr. W. Loeb, Collector of Customs, New York, is indicting a hundred importers, including thirty fashionable dressmakers. Detectives traced 200 trunks containing French millinery and lingerie on which should have been paid, £400,000; but which escaped duty through being left at the Customs until the consignors demanded them. ' Mr. Loch believes that the Treasury has lost two million sterling in recent years r oy this kind of fraud alono. Twenty officials of the weighing department have been indicted for accepting bribes in connection with the importation of produce.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 213, 14 October 1909, Page 2
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110SMUGGLING IMPORTERS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 213, 14 October 1909, Page 2
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