DEPORTED FROM CANADA

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 215, 11 September 1928, Page 10

DEPORTED FROM CANADA

HAM WITH A GRIEVANCE. VAMJUUSm '"OK ' AOBAHOT. INTERRUPTED TRIP TO ENGLAND. "Who's who on the Aorangi V* Sometimes it is very difficult to ascertain—even by a vigilant pressman. At any rate there was a first-class passenger whose presence at 7.45 last evening, fifteen minutes before the mail steamer sailed, was a very important matter, as he was no less than a deportee from Canada. Whilst an Auckland detective waited about to pay ills official respects to the man in question, a "Star" reporter had the opportunity of a brief interview! Mr. Bigger, a person of prepossessing appearance and with a leg infirmity, was ta^ en b y surprise when politely asked about his troubles, but was soon au fait with the interviewer. "I have nothing to say at present," he remarked, "because I am waiting to get back to Australia to where I believe the newspapers have published a tissue of misleading ■5? mt me - J ean P™* the stones to be lies, and, upon getting over after obtaining legal assistance, I intend to proceed for damages. It hurts me because my people live at Melbourne and will be very worried." ' Extradition Claim Dismissed. I In response to a query as to what was ! at the bottom of all the business, Mr i Bigger said he was not going to say' He was en route to England to join his wife there when extradition proceedinas were launched against him in Canada at the instance of the police authorities at Washington. The case was heard at Victoria, 8.C., and the judge dismissed tile proceedings, he said, refusing to grant the American claim launched in a British country against a British subject. "Anyhow, I won," declared the deportee. Prom what could be gathered his. comfortable departure from Canada was required as a diplomatic move on ?J£ rt ? f **» officials at Ottawa. After settling affairs in his native land he intends ■■ to make another start for En«- . land. '** ■> |p"'* •-,: • Evidently Mr. Bigger is a zealous newspaper student. Although the Aorangi had been paly 24 hours in port he had perused with interest a report concerning another "brother in distress.'' "I also noticed the photograph of your Mr. Ford, the tramway manager, of whom I have pleasant recollections, t travelled on the same boat as he did • A-.-:. yt%4-(- . . . y : ~ , ~,' , , ■. .;, v.;,_•

some eighteen months ago," added Mr. Bigger, who had a look over Auckland yesterday when allowed parole by special permission of the Customs officials, who. were also keen to see that he made a safe passage from New Zealand. A middle-aged man with steel-grey hair, this saloon passenger does not lack confidence, and he would be amongst the happy crowd on the upper deck last night watching and waiting for the radio news about the Southern Cross as the mail steamer crossed the Tasman in the opposite direction for Sydney.