CUSTOMS EVADED.
INDICTMENT OF IMPORTERS. ! WHAT THE TREASURY HAS LOST BY FRAUD. United Press Association—ByElectnc Telegraph Copyright. | Received October 13, 9 a.m. | NEW YORK, October 12. It is reported that Mr W. Loeb, Collector of Customs at New York, is indicting a hundred importers, including thirty fashionable dress makers. Detectives traced two hundred trunks containing French millinery and lingerie, on which there should have been paid ,£400,000, but which escaped duty through being left in the Customs until the consignors demanded them. Mr Loeb believes the Treasury lost two millions sterling in recent years by this kii:d of fraud alone. Twenty officials of the weighing department have been indicted for accepting bribes in connection with the importation of produce.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9621, 14 October 1909, Page 5
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119CUSTOMS EVADED. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9621, 14 October 1909, Page 5
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