SMELLS LIKE GRAFT.
4. REYAI/S CONTRABAND PERFUME. LONDON. October 20. The activities of the Oustom officials, 8 the Riga correspondent of the London " Daily Mail.” have caused political and domestic crises in Reval. Though face powder and perfume are contraband, actre.sees are flaunting their possession of both, while society women, and even the wives «>r Government officials, arc deprived of these aids to beauty Their indignation, coupled with the discovery hy Oustom officials of the disappearance of large quantities of powder and perfume confiscated at the frontier, has placed prominent Ministers in a verv awkward and mcriminstinjj; positiou.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17192, 8 November 1923, Page 7
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