Bona fide gifts brought by overseas visitors, oi* by persons returning to New Zealand, are not being subjected to the import restrictions by the Customs Department. It is often usual for persons returning from abroad to bring with them articles of furniture or other effects for use in their homes. Inquiry shows that where the goods form part of a passenger’s ordinary luggage, no demur to their importation has been raised so far by the Customs Department. Where their bulk precludes inclusion in the baggage permitted a passenger on the vessel, it is stated that a position might arise where the Customs Department would require an application to be lodged for a licence; but it is considered that where they are genuinely intended for the use of the traveller it is unlikely, unless the circumstances were exceptional, that a licence would be refused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1939, Page 6
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