"NOT WANTED."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 283, 29 November 1937, Page 8

"NOT WANTED."

STEWARD GAOLED.

[ CRIMINAL RECORD. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANT. With a criminal record in England and also in New Zealand, Michael Alban AtkiiiHon, stcvjvd and labourer, aged 20, was f»eiit & jiiison for six months by Mr. F. K. uunt, S.M., in the Police Court to-day on a charge of stealing ' two suits, valued at £14 8/, belonging to a Chinese, Albert Wong. Atkinson pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant Walsh said that on November 25 Atkiiwon went to a liouslin Gr.y's Avenue, and during the absence 'of Albert Wong he enterid through a window and stole the two >uits. one of which he »<o!d privately for £1 •">/, and I the other he pawned for £1. He gave ! the pawnbroker a fictitious name and address. Aroused admitted the offence ' wh.-n seen by Detective Aplin. "This man, who recently arrived in ; Xi w Zealand, has a bad record and may ba <leseril>ed as an undesirable immi-

grant." «aid Mr. Walsh. "At Liverpool in 1924 he received two years' probation for warehouse breaking, and in 11>28 he was admitted to a further year's probation. Other conviction* in England included 24 hour-.' imprisonment for unlawful pos = p*-ion of a pn'r of boot", tlir-o "-firs' Bo"<tal for theft str.d. in 1032. 12 mo'-iSV imprisonment for offi—break ; ng and larceny. Arriving in Anek- ! land in .Tune, he deserted his shio and

•since he ba-» been here he ha>" served one month** imnrisonmeTit for theft and

been fined £« for .assisting in the management of a common gaming

hot'^e." "He is certainly not wanted here." said the magistrate in sentencing Atkinson to six months' imprisonment.