FIFTY POUND FINE
Confiscated Gold Bar ZEALANDIA INCIDENT I- AN EVASION THAT FAILED AND PAID DEARLY Per Press Association. Wellington, August 15. The bar of gold valued at 1-175, which wap seized from two passen,ge.r s about t» leave for Sydney by the steamer Zeala-ndia on August 5, will probably be rofurred to tho 'ow(ner R in the near future, but the Customs Department, with the iconeu.rrence of the a( ting-Mj nister of Customs. Premier Forbes. has im-
posed a fine of £450. find . the export duty been paid o-v the gold instead of a-n attempt IK-ing made to smuggle it out of the country, the owners would have parted with only £4 and thus saved. £46.
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Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3798, 16 August 1932, Page 6
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