DOMINION NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 June 1928, Page 11

DOMINION NEWS.

NOT SUGGESTED BY BRITISH \ FIRM. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 13. A statement recently appeared in the Press that a British , firm had suggested to a Dunedin business man an ingenious method by which the Customs authorities could be defrauded by understating the value, of goods imported on the cash on delivery basis. Investigating the matter Mr. Larnbie, British Deputy Trade Commissioner, has ascertained that the document in question was an unsigned, printed, circular rroni an Indian arm, and that the occurrence does not therefore reflect adversely upon the high standard of commercial morality maintained by British manufacturers and exporters. REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE. WELLINGTON, June 23. A delegation from the United Fire Brigades’ Association waited on the under-secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department, asking that the department should contribute towards the service's of fire brigades throughout the Dominion by installing and maintaining the firm alarm systems and giving concessions in' regard to telephone service to brigades. The undersecretary said that a definite reply would be made in a few- days.