Field Day For Customs
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 6. Customs officers today collected about £2OOO in duty from more than 500 New Zealanders who returned from the Olympic Games in the liner Oriana. This sum is believed to be a record in passenger duty for Auckland.
The New Zealanders went on a spending spree in Japan and Hong Kong and many returned with transistors, television sets, projectors and tape recorders. Duty ranged between £7 and £lO. One man had six transistors to declare. Portable television sets were bought in Japan and Hong Kong for a little over £4O. A man and his wife were allowed a combined £2O free of duty goods.
Many New Zealanders said they were “pretty broke after the fantastic trip,” but today 600 Australians continued their spending spree in New Zealand. Six hundred of them paid £3OOO to see Rotorua and Waitomo. Soon after the Oriana berthed buses took 500 to Rotorua and there were another 100 in three buses to Waitomo. The Oriana, the biggest of the six ships, used as floating hotels in Japan, made the run from Hong Kong to Auckland in nine days.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30592, 7 November 1964, Page 1
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