CONTRABAND CONTROL
APPOINTMENT IN BRITAIN. * (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.13 a.m.) RUGBY, October 27. Mr Justice Morton has accepted the post of : Deputy-Chairman of the Contraband Committee established by the Ministry of Economic Warfare. The function of this committee, of which Lord Finlay is chairman, is to decide whether the cargoes of ships calling at British contraband control bases are to be detained as suspected contraband or released. On an average, the committee deals with about eighty ships a week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 8
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82CONTRABAND CONTROL Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1939, Page 8
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