GIPSY PARTY DETAINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 134, 8 June 1926, Page 8

GIPSY PARTY DETAINED.

ARRIVAL FROM APSTRaW

ACTION" BY CUSTOMS OFITCm*

The party of twenty gipsies cv. arrived at Auckland from Sydney W«T Aorangi yesterday, but who "were rera*} permission to land, were the steamer Marama this morning; -tv party, which consists of five men tf* women and nine children, are now a*ai* ing instructions from the Comptroller jrf Customs at Wellington. I n the efentf of the permission to land being-refund the gipsies will be returned to Sy<S by the Marama, sailing from AucfchnS on Friday. T* , -

When interviewed to-day, the chief » the party said that the other memW were his sons, their wives and his on,,\ children. He himself had been born £ Greece, but all the othere had-beeu bom in either Australia or the United St»i« of America. All were British nubjecfo! His party had come to New ZeSej with the object of conducting hpbii« and other booths at agricultural ehAr* and elsewhere. Ke concluded that" all members had obtained passports bjfow leaving Australia and that since *'ni« arrival he had communicated with ttk Comptroller of Customs at Well-ngcoiv