Hungarian Sent To Gaol, Deportation Recommended

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29235, 20 June 1960, Page 16

Hungarian Sent To Gaol, Deportation Recommended

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Jun e 'l9. f atfo and' cmne to New Zealand years and it was recommended that he be sent back to Hungary, when Bede appeared before Mr W. H. Carson, SM. in, the Magistrate's Court, Wellington, for sentence on 11 charges, including escaping trom custody, unlawfully carrying,an air pistol, burglary, forgery, and theft The Magistrate said he Was ”a potential source of danger to the combi the 180 weeks that he had been in this country, Bede had Five weeks after he arrived, he ShO” 1 SS.WJS he was back again'‘ for burglary and theft. He was discharged from gaol and four .months later was back for burglary and car conversion. He came out of gaol on March 15 of this year and seven days later was charged with some of the present offences.; He escaped from custody and subsequently a at large armed! with an air I. . t . _ Mr C. G. Ppttinger, for Bede, said Bede had grown up during war and revolution, - and the resulting unsettlement was more marked in him than in many others. Bede only knew of New Zealand through its prisons. Counsel said that when New Zealand accepted refugees of Bede’s age, there was a duty to ensure that they had- the oppor-

ftunit y;to settle (town as good Zealand kv spite of the punishment be wm about to receive.