£50,000 Yacht “Baggage"
“The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, August 10. A £50,000 private yacht brought to New Zealand earlier this year by Sir Jack Butland, an Auckland industrialist, qualified as “passenger’s baggage,” and was therefore free both of duty and import licensing, the Minister of Customs (Mr Shelton) told Parliament last night.
"Can baggage be 120 feet; long?” Mr W. W. Freer (Opp .i Mount Albert) asked. Mr Freer had asked how; the yacht was allowed to be' imported. It had taken five! employees 18 months to sail; it to New Zealand. Was any; licence needed to pay their! salaries? It was ludicrous that while; manufacturers were writing; letters in an attempt to get; £5OO worth of licence. some- : one could bring in a £50.000; luxury yacht. Mr Shelton said anyone
; who owned and used an: ' article overseas for 12 months; could bring it in as his own! .property as “passenger’s bagi gage.” It was permitted to | ; enter on proof it had been ; owned and used for more ! than 12 months. When Mr Freer objected. Mr Shelton said it could be ; termed “household effects” or ; “other effects.” Mr Freer: Good lord, where are we getting to? They! ' search your baggage for a transistor worth a miserable j £5. yet you can bring in a ! £50.000 yacht.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 3
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