RETAILER FINED £25 FOR HAVING PENS ON WHICH DUTY NOT PAID
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Sept. 3. For being in possession of uncustomed goods—G4 ball-pointed pens and GO refills —John Patrick Newman, a Queen street retailer, was lined £25 in the Police Court yesterday. The pens and refills, for which he has paid £97 10s, were said t.o have been confiscated. The Customs Department prosecutor said these pens, of U.S. and Canadian origin, were not yet on the New Zealand market because of import licensing.
A principal of the master agents said that if available here they could be retailed for 17s Gd each..
The defendant said he had paid 27s Gd for the pens and 2s Gd for refills to a unknown man who said he had a license to import. The defendant surmised that duty had been paid. The magistrate, Mr. J. Molding, in imposing the minimum fine, said that to accept the word of a casual man coming to a shop was not a sufficient discharge of liability.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23042, 5 September 1949, Page 6
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