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Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14260, 15 November 1916, Page 10 (Supplement)

_ Here is {» hard <?:>se. A local firm' of airech importers received, a bale which should have contained a' specified number of hearthrugs. When delivery was taken the bale appeared i o ho pe.rf ectlv intact, and as it had loft tho packer. On being opened in the warehouse it was found that one-third of the j-ucjs had been abstracted, tho wc'dit and space being made, up^ with pioc-es of old sacl£ ing and a portion of a sack of fertiliser. The importers hnd to pnv C-'ustoms duty before obtaining delivery of the' goods, and paid ns nwn tho, ftlll.-eonsiffnment, as invoiced. '-Tfcfh.uYi part .of the cas« 15 that not -otjlv-clo"f.hci;rmporters lose one-third'of their'■Ropds -without aay'.redrass whatever, Inrt they areirunable to obtain "a refund of the^dutypaid on the mg&-.thcy..*d^ iJiof-receivc... ".