THE CUSTOMS FRAUDS.
AX IXGEXIOUS SCHEME. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, March 14. Investigation reveals that a remarkable scheme was adopted by Heath. It is alleged that instead of a cheque for duty being paid at the Customhouse and the whole of the goods taken delivery of, a different set of documents was made out, representing that some were goods in transit to another country and should be dealt with in bond. The device adopted in order to get these out of the control of the Customs without paying duty was to stop at a secret depot on the way from one vessel to another, i empty the goods into other cases which were got up to represent the original cases. The latter were then filled with old bricks and rubbish and placed aboard an outward hound ve-sel addressed to a fictitious firm at another port. The goods themselves were carefully packed at the secret depot in cases similar to the original ones and delivered to the importers. The Customs recovered from Xew Zealand cases sent there and lying unclaimed. When opened it was found that they contained rubbish.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 253, 15 March 1913, Page 5
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189THE CUSTOMS FRAUDS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 253, 15 March 1913, Page 5
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