TOBACCO SMUGGLING.
SUBSTANTIAL FINES. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 27. For tobacco smuggling, Raymond Brugnon A'Court, aged 2tf, a salesman, was to-day fined £4O and Elizabeth Campbell Gilbert, aged 48, a domestic, was lined £25. Counsel for the Customs Department said the two accused, who were sitting in the front seat of a sedan car near the Conway Bridge railway workers camp, were accosted by a constable who believed that the car contained uncustomed tobacco. A’Court* objected to the car being searched and tried to drive off, but the constable stopped him. Twenty-six pounds of manufactured tobacco were found hidden under some bedding. Asked why the tobacco had not been put through the Customs, accused said they didn’t know where to go. Later they said they were going to pay in Christchurch. “I have some reason to believe, there is a considerable amount of this illegal selling of tobacco, not only in Christchurch but in other parts,” said the Magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley). ‘‘lt is a .pity that it should be so.” Tobacco was a luxury product that gave the State considerable revenue, and persons who evaded the duty defrauded not only the State but the individual.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 27 November 1936, Page 8
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198TOBACCO SMUGGLING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 308, 27 November 1936, Page 8
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