GIFTS NOT SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS
CARRIAGE BY PERSONS ARRIVING IN N.Z.
(Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, March 21
Bona fide gifts brought by overseas visitors or by persons returning to New Zealand are not being subjected to the import restrictions by the Customs Department. It is often usual for persons returning from abroad to bring with them articles of furniture or other effects for use in their homes.
Inquiry shows that where the goods form part of a passenger’s ordinary luggage no demur to their importation has been raised so far by the Customs Department. Where their bulk precludes their inclusion in the baggage permitted passengers on a vessel, it is stated that a postiion might arise where the Customs Department would require an application to be lodged for a licence, but it is considered that where they are genuinely intended for the use of the traveller it is unlikely, unless the circumstances were exceptional, that a licence would be refused.
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Southland Times, Issue 23773, 22 March 1939, Page 15
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161GIFTS NOT SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS Southland Times, Issue 23773, 22 March 1939, Page 15
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