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NON-PAYMENT OF DUTY JEWELLER HEAVILY PINED. »’ (Per United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, September 111. For shipping to Australia gold on which duly had not - been paid, Thomas Hornsby, a jeweller, of Regent street, was fined £SO and costs by the magistrate, Mr 11. P. Lawry, this morning. Counsel for the Collector of Customs said that the defendant paid duty on several shipments in 111 arch, and therefore was well aware that duty had to be paid. In April lie met a member of the crew of the Waikouaili and suggested that gold valued at. £428. should be shipped without payment of duty. The gold went by that vessel in May. It was a deliberate offence. Counsel for the defence said that the defendant lost money by sending gold to Australia. It would have paid him better to have paid the duty and sent the gold to England.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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