VISITORS FROM AUSTRALIA
BUSY DAYS FOR POLICE UNWELCOME REAPPEARANCE Among the visitors to the city for the week’s racing are a number whose names, while not appearing on the list of guests at the city’s best-known hotels, may be numbered among prospective guests of His Majesty the King. In other and plainer words, the police are looking for a group of arrivals from Australia, whose ,fame has preceded them—in the shape of extracts from Australian police gazettes. In earlier days—some 20 or 30 years ago—racing carnivals in this country were regularly visited by the upper classes; so to speak, of Australian criminals, But during the depression their visits became scarcer, and almost died away altogether. This year, however, they have made an unwelcome reappearance.
On the principle that prevention is better than cure, the Police Force of the city has wherever possible taken advantage of legislative powers, and arrested the visitors under such charges as being “idle and disorderly.’’ There is close co-operation between New Zealand and Australia in the supplying of information about such visitors; and although they are often in doubt about the actual appearance of the visitors, the police have a shrewd idea where and how to look for them.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22554, 9 November 1938, Page 12
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