DEPORTATION ORDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1936, Page 11

DEPORTATION ORDER

MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

According to his1 own Statement, which he maintained before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, Louis Bruno, a labourer, aged 24, is a New Zealand citizen, but he was nevertheless ordered to be removed from the Dominion at the first opportunity, and to be detained in custody pending that opportunity. < Mr. A. Paul, Collector of Customs, said that the accused arrived' in Wellington last Monday as a stowaway by the- Makura from Sydney. He claimed that he was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, and left some years ago on an oil tanker. Since then he had served on several American vessels. In 1933, according to his statement, he returned to Auckland by the tanker New Zealand, from which he deserted, and he subsequently went on to Australia, where he had worked since in several avenues of employment.

An exhaustive search of the files in th;( Registrar's office between the years 1909 and 1917' failed to reveal a record of the accused's name and date of bMh, said Mr. Paul. In addition, there was no record of his name appearing on the list of the crew of the tanker New Zealand., He was unable to name anyone in New Zealand, and was very hazy as to the Auckland localities.

"You claim that you are a New Zealarider," said the Magistrate. "The onus is .thrown on you to prove you are* a New Zealand citizen. If you cannot do so, you must "be treated as a prohibited immigrant, and deported." The "accused did riot1 give evidence on oath, but said that he signed on on the tanker New Zealand under another name, in order to avoid deportation , from the. United States, of