OVER £l00 FORFEITED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18256, 27 November 1933, Page 9

OVER £loo FORFEITED

ATTEMPTED SMUGGLING GOLD HIDDEN IN SOAP (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A Chinese hawker, Chin l’afc Yew, 28, of Dunedin, was fined £25 and ordered to forfeit over £IOO worth of silver and gold coins when he was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court to-day of attempting to export £34 17s 6d in silver coin without a permit, and pleaded guilty. Counsel said the defendant was to have sailed on the Monowai. He had a fairly heavy clieSfc, which, on being searched, yielded £74 in gold coin, and a little under 2oz. 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 tho defendant’s person. For the defence, it was stated that the defendant was going to see relatives iu China and was taking his savings with him as he bad done previously. Other Chinese who wished to send money home had secreted the money in soap so it would not lie stolen.