UNCUSTOMED GOODS.
FROM PILLAGE OF STEAMER
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH. Sept. 4. A fin© of £SO sterling was llnposed on Roy Edward Hayes, waterside worker, for being in possession of uncustomed goods, a roll of cloth valued at £22 15s and the propel tv of the N.Z. Shipping Company. Evidence was that the cloth wias part of a consignment pillaged from the steamer Hororata at New Plymouth. A constable and Customs collector visited Hayes’ 'lodgings, and discovered the roll under his pillow.
In Court, Hayes toldl a story of meeting two travellers in a, car and buying the roll from them.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 5
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102UNCUSTOMED GOODS. Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 5
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