TOBACCO SMUGGLERS
MAN AND WOMAN FINED
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT
[PBB PBESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHRISTCHURCH, November 27
For tobacco smuggling, Raymond Brugnon A’Court, 28,' salesman, today, was fined £4O. Elizabeth. Lillian Campbell Gilbert, 48, domestic was fined £25. Counsel for the Customs Department said that the two accused', who ' were sitting in the front seat of a sedan car, near the Conway Bridge railway workers’ camp,.were accosted by a constable who believed that the car contained uncustomed tobacco. A’Court objected to the car being searched and tried’ to drive off, hut the constable stopped him. Twentysix pounds of manufactured tobacco were found hidden under some bedding. Asked why the tobacco had not been put through Customs, accused said they didn’t know where to go. Later they said they were going to pay in Christchurch. “I have-some reason to believe there is a considerable amount of this illegal selling of tobacco not , only in Christchurch, but in other parts,” said the Magistrate, Mr. Mosley. “It it is pity it should be so.” Tobacco was a luxury product that, gave the State considerable revenue. Persons who evaded the duty defrauded not only the State, but the individual.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1936, Page 7
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