A CHINESE SMUGGLER.
HEAVY FINE IMPOSED
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Wellington, June 26. Young Ching, a Chinese passouger by tlie Warnmoo from Sydney, was fined £100 (to be reduced to £25) for a broach of the Customs Act, by having in his possession ten pieces of silk valued at £10, and a gramaphon© and records valued at £30. The defence was that the gramaphoiie had-been in use in China, and was therefore not dutiable, and that the accused was unaware that there was silk in a box which ho was bringing across for a Chinamui who had been refused a berth in theWarrimoo for that particular voyage.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13454, 27 June 1912, Page 6
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106A CHINESE SMUGGLER. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13454, 27 June 1912, Page 6
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