BORDER SMUGGLING
IRISH VISITOR'S COMMENT Precautions taken on the border between Northern Ireland and the Free State to guard, among other things, the extremely high tariff wall, were remarked upon by a Londonderry clergyman, the Rev. J. MacManaway, who arrived in Wellington by the roa from London. "Cattle are smunfiled across almost every night, but there has been no actual fighting on the border for six or seven years now, he said. Mr. MacManawav said that in Londonderry, a town of about 50, people, there were 900 heavily-arm regular and special police, lhere armoured cars in the town, but t ey had not been taken out since the as serious rioting in 1921. To give an impression of the heigh® of the tariff barriers he said that i a motor-car in Northern Ireland WB* B sold for £3OO it would cost a man u - ing on the other side of the bor e! » mile away, about £4BO.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22119, 27 May 1935, Page 6
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