NOT ALLOWED TO LAND AT SYDNEY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 8

NOT ALLOWED TO LAND AT SYDNEY

Elderly Canadian Woman

MAY NOW SETTLE IN NEW ZEALAND

“They told me I was too old, not rich enough,” said Miss J. Danforth, Montreal, Canada, who returned to New Zealand yesterday by the Wanganella. She is the' woman stated in cabled reports to have been refused permission to land at Sydney, on grounds of health, except subject to certain conditions which she declined to accept. She explained, in an interview with “The Dominion” ou arrival at Wellington, that she was not familiar with the Australian immigration laws, and did not understand why she had not been allowed to land.

“Maybe someone spoke against me,” she said. “I have always led an irreproachable life.” Miss Danforth stated that she had been given to understand that it was necessary to put down 200 dollars to enter Australia. She had more than that. She received 50 dollars monthly under an uncle’s will, and, in addition, had private capital. SJie had come out from Canada to settle in a country with a warm climate. She had spent Christmas and New Year at Honolulu, but as she did not feel so well there she came on to Auckland, and later proceeded to Sydney oa the Wanganella’s last trip. Her future plans were uncertain, but she considered that she might possibly settle in New Zealand.

Miss Danforth, who is 62 years old speaks with a French accent, which she ascribes to having been brought up in a French convent school in

Canada. She carries a reading-glass, and hei’ travelling companion is a large, tawny cat, which she stated she had brought with her from Canada.