“ASSESSING” A SKELETON
SWISS CUSTOMS’ DILEMMA BASLE, Oct. 8. A Svvmt* scientist returned from Australia with the skeleton of an aborigine ip his baggage. The Customs officials scratched their heads. Skeletons >vcre not mentioned in the tariff, and they had never had to „‘iftiasef»s” puts before. They overcame fjic dileiphm h.y ndmitjng the skeleton duty frpe, under the heading of “ Articles already worn. ’’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17606, 23 October 1931, Page 3
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