DELUDED IMMIGRANT.
GOVERNMENT PAYS PASSAGE BACK. (raasa association tilsorui.) WELLINGTON, May 13.
At Palmerston North an unusual set of circumstances was revealed in the Magistrate's Court, when an engineer was sued for rent.
Counsel for defendant said that hiSi client came out from England as an immigrant, believing that a position as gasworks manager at Nelson awaited him. The New Zealand' Government representatives in England did not make any enquiries whether the position was really available when defendant applied for a passage as an immigrant. ' When defendant arrived in the Dominion, to his surprise and consternation he found that the gasworks people at Nelson knew nothing at all about the'position. Being stranded, with his wife, without funds or frjen*:, he # did the best he could by getting odd jobs. He had a personal interview with Mr Massey, and tho Government was paying his expenses, to England, for which he would sail from Auckland next month, Tho summons for Tent had been sent to the Government in an endeavour to secure assistance, but no reply had yet been received. • . Sis Worship: Has Mr Massey made himself responsible for that alsoP
Judgment waa given for the claim, and nn order made for possession of tho premises. V
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18072, 14 May 1924, Page 9
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