Out Smuggling
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Santo Tries to Stamp Out Smuggling
THE Customs staff at Santo, New Hebrides, has been considerably increased with the result that there now is sufficient staff to handle the searching of all the weekly plane passengers’ luggage upon arrival here.
The passengers are loaded onto a bus immediately upon arrival and are taken to the Customs Office so that they may be present when their possessions are searched.
This is an endeavour to stamp out illicit traffic in opium and watches and so forth. Most of the smuggled goods come off overseas
copra ships.-
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