ENTRY TO AUSTRALIA PROHIBITED
SAILING FOR NEW ZEALAND
(Received October 31, noon.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
On an-order issued by the Minister of the Interior, Mrs. Freer will be permitted to land from the Maloja to tranship to the Wanganella, which is sailing for . New Zealand this afternoon, but whether she will be allowed to land in New Zealand is not known.
-Mrs. Freer's present intention is to wait in New Zealand until she hears from her solicitors, whom she consulted upon the Maloja's arrival in Melbourne. .
"I want to know," she says, "why I have been refused permission to land in Australia. lam a British citizen, travelling with a British passport. I suspect' that domestic trouble is at the bottom of it." . ' "
.She stated that she is a niece of Viscount Cave.
Immigration officials here state that Mrs. Freer's offence is that "she failed to pass the dictation test."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1936, Page 9
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