FORD'S FATE.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17429, 13 April 1922, Page 5

FORD'S FATE.

BOBNT OFFERING TO TAKIFF. And so tins and tins of kerosene were ponied on the car—a second-hand Ford. A match was .put to it. Dense clouds, of smoke—and the car was no more. It bad made a burnt offering to the Australian Customs tariff (says the "Sydney Sun" of a recent date). Seldom does it fall to the lot of a Customs officer to superintend at a iire, but last week the unexpected happened. A car was imported: from New iJealand, and its owner was overwhelmed .when informed that under tariff thero was £GO to pay. "No, I will never ride in that car again,'' he said. "Sixty founds! I protest. I'd sooner i*lninri my privilege of having it bnrnt." An d burnt it was—with all the ceremony the handy runabout warranted. The whole affair was quite legal, for by law the owner can elect to have his goodii burnt rather than pay duty. An officer of the Customs Department accompanied the Fold—stricken down in the prime of life—to its lasting .rest-ing-place, Moore Park. Mercifully the officer is reticent over the last' pathetic sufferings of the car. Sufficient it is that he has reported to the Department that in accordance 'with instructions ZYZXVP 13007,. the car had been utterly destroyed.