WOMAN DISAPPEARS

Evening Star, Issue 22542, 9 January 1937, Page 13

WOMAN DISAPPEARS

EVADES DEPORTATION ORDER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, January 8. It is reported that the. woman who was not allowed to land, from the Niagara and who should have been sent back to New Zealand aboard the Awatea has evaded the authorities. The immigration officials had allowed the woman off the Niagara pending the departure of the Awatea on Saturday last on condition that she remained at a young women’s hostel near the city. She stayed there for several days and then disappeared. WO ACTION IN MEANTIME. ' , SYDNEY, January 8.. (Received January 9, at 11 a.m.) No search is to be made by the Customs Department or police for the New Zealand woman who disappeared from a hostel. Provided she does not become a charge on the community no action will be taken against her, but should she seek assistance from 'any charitable organisation she will be taken into custody and returned to New Zealand.

[When the Niagara berthed .at Sydney on December 27 a woman travelling on a third-class ticket from Auckland was questioned. by the immigration officials, and upon being found to have insufficient means, of support she was prohibited from landing. It was stated that the woman twice previously tried to enter Australia, but that on each occasion she was discovered in midi-Tasman as a stowaway.