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CASE IN FRENCH COURTS
PARIS, March 30.
The Courts at Belfort have had to deal with a novelty in the way of of-fences-Mlie smuggling of electric current.
A big undertaking which draws all its power from over the frontier had omitted to inform the Post Office authorities that it had imported over the frontier 281,000,000 kilowatts of electricity, which are declared to be dutiable to the value of about 39,500,000 francs (£318,709). It is a piece of neglect which will be costly to the company, since, in addition to the Customs duty, it has been ordered to pay in all 80,000,000 francs (£645,161), and tho manager of the company was also sentenced to three days imprisonment. In this instance, however, the benefit of the First Offenders’ Act was given. 1
The sentence on a firm under the claim of the Customs authorities that electricity' is dutiable merchandise is extremely important.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1929, Page 2
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