FORFEITURE OF COINS
ATTEMPTED EXPORT TO CHINA MONEY CONCEALED IN SOAP. (Pee United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 27. A Chinese hawker, Chin Pak Yew, aged 28, of Dunedin, was fined £25 and ordered to .forfeit £IOO worth of silver and gold coins, when convicted in the Magistrate’s Court to-day of attempting to export £34 17s fid in silver coin without a permit. He pleaded guilty. Counsel said that the defendant was to have sailed by the Monowai. He had a fairly heavy chest, which, on being searched, yielded £74 worth of gold coin and a little under two ounces of gold dust. Most of the gold coin was found concealed in two bars of laundry soap in the bottom of the chest. The silver coin was found in various articles of apparel in the chest, in soap, and on the defendant’s person. For the defence it was stated that the defendant was going to see relates in China, and was taking his savings with him, as he had done previously. Other Chinese who wished to send money home had secreted it in the soap so that it would not be stolen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22122, 28 November 1933, Page 11
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