GIVES HERSELF UP.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 116, 26 February 1937, Page 5

GIVES HERSELF UP.

WOMAN TO BE DEPORTED. UNABLE TO OBTAIN WORK. (United Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The woman who evaded Customs officials after arriving from New Zealand by the Niagara on Boxing Day, has given herself up at the Customs Department. Customs officers at the time predicted this outcome, because of lack of means. When the woman returned she told the officials she had had a hard time after an unsuccessful search for work in New South Wales and Queensland. She had had to walk from Brisbane to Sydney. She was at the end of her resources.

When the Niagara berthed at Sydney on Boxing Day, a woman travelling on a third-class ticket from Auckland was questioned by immigration officials, and, on being found to have insufficient means of support, she was prohibited from, landing. It was stated that the woman twice previously tried to enter Australia, but on each occasion was discovered in mid-Tasman as a stowaway. She was ordered .to be deported, but immigration officials allowed her off the Niagara pending the departure of the Awatea on January 2 on condition that she remained at a young woman’s hostel near the city. She stayed there for several days, and then disappeared.