CIGARETTES BURNED
UNWANTED CONSIGNMENT EXPLANATION BY MINISTER IMPORTED FOUR YEARS AGO [BY TELEGRAPH SPECIAL REPORTER] WELLINGTON, Thursday Reasons for the destruction by burning of 750,000 cigarettes in Dunedin as notified in a Press Association message published yesterday were given in the House of Representatives today by the acting-Minister of' Customs, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason, in reply to an urgent questioA by Dr. D. G. McMillan (Government —Dunedin West). Dr. McMillan asked if the Minister's attention had been drawn to the message and whether the reasons given for the destruction of the cigarettes was correct. The Minister said it was a fact that the cigarettes had been destroyed under customs supervision at the request of the importers, but the reason for that action was that, as the cigarettes were a slow-selling' line, the importer decided it was not worth paying duty or further bond storage charges on the goods. As the cigarettes had been imported into New Zealand about four and a-half years ago it would be obvious that the destruction of the goods had no connection whatever with the import control regulations.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23428, 18 August 1939, Page 10
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