COSTLY SMUGGLING
WOMEN FROM CONTINENT
(From "The Post's" Representative.) . '.LONDON, 14th April. There are.still many people who seek to try. to avoid the Customs. When they are caught the fines are heavy. A few days ago a young American lady who lives iirParis was charged at Folkestone with attempting to smuggle 23 pairs of silk stockings and two pairs of kid gloves. Customs officer said that when the woman arrived from Boulogne she said she had nothing dutiable and no silk 'articles. In her suit cases were found nino old silk, stockings, and in the toes of these stockings were the 23 pairs of new stockings roll.cd up. She then said she was going to a London friend who was in the trade and was taking them to her. She also said that she was going to stay five days in the country, and she wanted all the stockings to wear. A fino of £47, treble duty and value, was imposed.
On Sunday a lady traveller from South Australia was, at Folkestone, fined £94 2s, single value and duty of uncustomed goods, which she brought with her from Boulogne. When asked on arrival if she had any new silk goods she said she had not, but several silk dresses and undergarments were found in her luggage. She said she had. purchased; them in Paris, where she was told she would not have to pay duty on .them, as she was' a traveller*)
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 9
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242COSTLY SMUGGLING Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 9
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