Evading Customs Duties
The Victorian Inquiry
Press Association .—Copyright. Meibotons, this day. In the fish oase3, Luoas, tho Now Zealand agent for Mien at the Bluff up to 1902, gave evidence. Allen had said it would bt ii b*d job for him if the Government seized Lucas's books, and asked him to destroy them. Subsequently, on finding Lucas did not dosiro.y them all, ho informed Lucas thnt ho hadchoated him' out of about £2OO over the fish, and offered <o give him JElfjO if ho would destroy tho books and go to Now Zealand, where ho would send him as rauoh more. Alien also alleged that ho destroyed his own books, 80 that tho Government could havo no evidence bearing on the oeso.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1323, 11 May 1905, Page 2
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