A SHIPMENT OF GOLD
JEWELLER FINED £SO [Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 12. For shipping to Australia gold on which duty had not been paid, Thomas Hornsby, a jeweller, of Regent street, was fined £SO and costs by the magistrate, Mr Lawry, this morning. Counsel for the Collector of Customs said that the defendant paid duty on several shipments in March, and therefore was well aware that duty had to be paid. In April he met a member of the crew of the Waikouaiti and suggested that gold valued at £428 be shipped without payment of duty. The gold went by that vessel in May. It was a deliberate offence. . , Counsel for the defence said that the defendant lost money by sending o-okl to Australia. It would have paid him better to have paid duty and sent the gold to England.
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Evening Star, Issue 21823, 12 September 1934, Page 8
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142A SHIPMENT OF GOLD Evening Star, Issue 21823, 12 September 1934, Page 8
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