Goods Seized
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 8. The Customs Department’s preventive service seized goods worth $53,000 during 1968-69, and fines for smuggling totalled $21,285, the department says in Its annual report to Parliament. The service also seized 757 grammes of cannabis, 140 grammes of opium, 300 millilitres of opium solution, and 20 pethidine hydrochloride tablets. Eight motor vehicles.
with an estimated value of $19,805, were forfeited to the Crown for import breaches, the report added. Another eight vehicles had been seized and were the subject of legal proceedings. Other goods of a general nature, including New Zealand currency, amounting in value to $5600, were seized. When these amounts were added to the value of seizures made by the preventive service, the total for the year was about $78,000.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32035, 9 July 1969, Page 28
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