EVADING THE CUSTOMS.
FIREMEN FINED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.J ' WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. Fireman John Joseph Howard, when stopped by a Customs Officer on leaving the ‘“Manama” yesterday, rushed to the .side of the wharf and threw a parcel into the ■water. The officer and the fireman came to grips and the latter was caught in the headloek and thrown, afterwards being locked up. At the Police Court to-day Howard was fined £lO for resisting a Customs officer and £1 for stealing a pound of butter, which he had wrapped in the parcel, an default of a month’s gaol.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 February 1932, Page 5
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97EVADING THE CUSTOMS. Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 February 1932, Page 5
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