Cheese entered Canada on a stolen licence
Wellington
The Canadian authorities seized New Zealand Cheddar cheese because, unknown to the Dairy Board, it entered Canada on a stolen licence, the board has discovered. A board spokesman, Mr Quentin Golder, said that about 30 tonnes each of New Zealand Cheddar and Edam were seized over the last fortnight because they entered illegally. Canadian importers hold (licences which are granted by Canadian customs, and earlier this year, when Canadian customs moved offices, two cartons of licences disappeared. Customs said nothing
about the theft but waited for the licences to turn up — which they did when the New Zealand, and also some Finnish, cheese was imported. For this reason customs let the cheese go to its final destination rather than seizing it on the wharf so that it would have some lead. Mr Golder said he believed that legal, proceedings were likely to start although the Canadian authorities still did not know who the guilty party was.
The board believed the total amount of cheese involved was about 180 tonnes.
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Press, 1 November 1984, Page 24
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