EXPORT OF GOLD.
Heavy Penalty for Attempt to Evade Duty. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 15. A bar of gold, valued at £175, which was seized when two passengers were about to leave for Sydney by the Zealandia, on August 5, will probably be returned to the owners in the near future, but the Customs Department, with the concurrence of the actingMinister of Customs has imposed a fine of £SO. Had the export duty been paid on the gold, instead of an attempt being made to smuggle it out of the country, the owners would have had only £4 to pay. The penalty for attempting to evade payment of duty is confiscation of the gold or a fine up to £SOO, at the discretion of the 1 Minister of Customs. It is stated officially that in the event of future attempts to export gold illegally being discovered, very substantional penalities will be imposed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19320816.2.47
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 533, 16 August 1932, Page 4
Word Count
153EXPORT OF GOLD. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 533, 16 August 1932, Page 4
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in