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WELLINGTON. Dec. 13. A protest claiming the Government used taxpayers’ money to deport Kenneth Mcßride—the coloured Scot who “gatecrashed” the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference—is understood to have been received by the Department of Immigration. The protest was believed to have said McBride’s “expensive cameras and clothing” should have been sold to pay the fare out of New Zealand —or that he should have
been made to work to meet the coots. Mcßride—who wore flowing African robes when he posed as a conference delegate—claimed to be a United Nations observer when he arrived in New Zealand from Fiji last month.
He left New Zealand by air at the week-end for London.
An official of the Immigration Department today confirmed that Mcßride’s fare has been paid by the Government He travelled tourist at a cost of £253.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30933, 14 December 1965, Page 22
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