Customs procedures
Sir,—Having read the second attempt by the Customs Department to justify random reading of travellers’ personal correspondence, I believe your correspondent, D. Gardner, is correct in his view that the Customs Acts confer no such power. Travellers should therefore resist any attempt by Customs officers to read private papers and should lay complaints with the police and with the Ombudsman if such attempts persist. In the meantime I intend to forward this correspondence to the Minister of Customs and to the Ombudsman with a request that this offensive practice cease forthwith. — Yours, etc., ALAN WILKINSON, Leader, N.Z. Values Party. July 14, 1983.
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Press, 16 July 1983, Page 16
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