CUSTOMS FRAUDS
CHRISTCHURCH, 10th February. The accused, men who pleaded guilty to Customs frauds were : John Hill and James Anderson Campbell, late Customs officers ; Samuel John M'Cormick and Christopher Robert Smith, lately in the employ of the New Zealand Express Company j George Clifford Francis, lately in the employ of Stevenson, Stewart and Co. ; Ernest Walter Wood, lately in the employ of J. T. Heywood and Co. ; Francis Geoffrey Leigh, lately in the employ of T. H. Green and Co. ; and Hugh Lawton Owen, a Customs agent. The reading of the charges took fully half an hour. His Honour said that he did not propose to deal with the cases that morning. He would require as full particu* lars as possible in order to ascertain the nature of the different charges. Sentence was' deferred.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 35, 11 February 1914, Page 2
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