REFUSED ADMISSION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 31, 7 February 1927, Page 10

REFUSED ADMISSION

THE NANCARROW CASE

FINDING AT VANCOUVER

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

VANCOUVER, 12th January.

I\ Nancarrow, a New Zealander, who, with his wife and. six children, was refused admission to Canada by a board .of inquiry which investigated his case at the immigration bureau here two months ago, was adjudged guilty of having come to this country with the intention of. entering the United States illegally. That is the decision of the immigration board, as made known now by the Dominion Immigration Officer, Mr. A. E. Skinner.

Mr. Skinner emphatically denies al-~ legations of -unfair treatment made lay Mr. Nanearrow recently in the New Zealand Press.

Landing here from the Niagara, Mr. Nancarrow stated that he was going to join his father-in-law at Calgary, declared Mr. .Skinner. He did not have sufficient money to pay the fares of himself and his family to Calgary, and was detained by the immigration authorities.

Under cross-examination by a board of investigation, Mr. Nancarrow stated that his father-in-law "inducted an express business in Calgary. Later, he confessed that this was untrue, and that it was his intention to circumvent the United States quota law by shipping across the American border, according to Mr. Skinner. Mr. Nancarrow's fa-ther-in-law was traced to Idaho, where he has lived for eighteen years. Mr. Skinner brands as "ridiculous" the statement of Mr. Nancarow that he and his family were kopt in dirty barracks and given food they could not eat. '' The Nancarrow family were given separate quarters, with a private bath," he said. "Tho only restriction on their movements was that they wore compelled to slee£ in the barracks. By day they had complete liberty to go about the city. After a thorough investigation, the board rejected the family as likely to become a public charge.''