ALLEGED CUSTOMS FRAUDS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12190, 10 May 1905, Page 7

ALLEGED CUSTOMS FRAUDS.

IMPOBTERS- : #3W ZBAL Ain>^fl "united Pk*. A r^[ H '*^? : :M (Received M.y ••»•) ?i Mr Justice OCounor, In the Hjt£&sj Court, commenced to-d»y &•' k e » n »*#£?| of cases wherein certain are charged, with defrauding .the Ctaei&flß tome ia ooVmection with the^mporta--Ml tion of Now Zealand blue ood. -Hiere ,M§ are four defendants .Tdtogether, and ; | twenty-nine fe ; Jjl only four casea are being wen. ; M defence generally is a denial of 'the M* gations of / f and '|| fraud. ■ :. ■•.'•/■-■•'• ■':v r ---'.'' : -f ; 'M Mr Duffcy, in opening th» «M» tor s|§ the Crown, said that theW^rMTigl , *** ■-$3 laAy among the Custome joffioi*l» oa; ; g some wharves. Hβ inetance^,tiM» i^>a» : of an importer named Alleri^wfio,.WM..% avowed to take "away oasee of to supply hie own weights, I ****^! the cases being from 68lb to wlbi »?n| weight, which they were to .he figures eupplied from New;;2»fMMw,g; -0 he never made tho weight »boys *~^^'- in other instances, he .picked oufc, • small case and averaged the it. An examination of. a comparison with New Zealand ■■ ; porters' invoices, showed differences. In one case Allen entry in respect to C8641b of fi|*i;re»pttig|pi sonting duty under £29, ; wJiereai matter of fact the quantity w«e lb, and the duty £56. Allen'* had all been destroyed, but hie pal, iiucae, in Now Zealand, count sales thero showing that Allen : ' passed fish through the Outtoms at weights, and paid duty on euch krt|;|i|p weights, but charged Lucas duty onutbe %lM full weight. , ' ■ ~ "■ v-:ii^^j|