CUSTOMS HAUL
MAIL DISCOVERY JEWELS AND DIAMONDS HWALIEN’S PASSENGERS (9 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 31. Jewellery and diamonds worth thousands of pounds have been seized by the Customs at Australian ports, visited by the refugee steamer Hwalier.. formerly the Maori, on her way to Sydney. At Darwin. Cairns and Brisbane some refugees tried to send through the mails envelopes and small packages containing jewellery and diamonds addressed to relatives already in Australia. A severe Customs search had no.t then been made and, apparently, the refugees thought the envelopes would be passed as ordinary correspondence. All suspicious mail was collected and searched at the ports.
The Customs check of baggage at the wharf in Sydney is still proceeding.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22243, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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116CUSTOMS HAUL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22243, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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