GOLD EXPORT
A COSTLY EVASION [per 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 £5O, with costs, by the Magistrate (Mr. H. P. Lawry) this morning. Counsel for the Collector of Customs said that the defendant paid duty on several shipments in March, and was therefore well aware that the duty had to be paid. In April, he met a member of the crew of the Waikouaifi, and suggested that gold valued at £428 should be shipped without the payment of duty. The gold went by that vessel in May. It was a deliberate offence. Counsel for defendant said that the defendant lost money by sending gold to Australia. It would have paid him better to have paid the duty, and sent the gold to England.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 2
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144GOLD EXPORT Greymouth Evening Star, 12 September 1934, Page 2
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