UNUSUAL COURT CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1922, Page 10

UNUSUAL COURT CASE.

An unusual case wafe Tevealed by Oui prosetution of Joseph Crook in Wt-Ilino--ton yesterday for failure to register as an alien. The ease was heard by Mr V. X Hunt S-M. Crook was born in avV > Kingdom, said Sub-Ijispector Uc-Namara who prosecuted. Hβ went to;.the United States and remained there lor seven years, when he returned to the Lmted Kwgdom. He married, and then went back to the United States, wjTgre he became an American oitizen! years later he came to Xew Zealand, and had been here for 10 years He--.obtained employment at tlie"meat wogn, and had remained .there ever aince. He now desired to' return to America with his family, and applied for ! a gassport as an American citizen, and registered yesterday. In all such cases it wacaecessaTy that the person concerned -sJicmJd be prosecuted under the Act He was not. however, pressing for ;i heavy penalty. Crook's story was that he con-sidS-ed the fact that be -was horn on 'British soil made it unnecessary for him fo-register. "Oh, well, he has been he« for 10 years," said the magistrate wWtonvieted 3iim and order him to pay