WOMAN MIGRANT

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1937, Page 12

WOMAN MIGRANT

BARRED FROM AUSTRALIA.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, February 15. “They told me I was too iold and not rich enough,” said Miss 11. Denforth, of Montreal. Canada, who i eturned to New Zealand yesterday by the Wanganella. She was the woman stated in cabled reports to have been refused permission to land at Sydney except subject to certain conditions which she declined to accept. She stated in an interview on 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. “1 have always led an unreproachful life.” Miss Denforth stated that she had been given to understand that it was necessary to put down £2OO to enter Australia, and, more than that, she received £5O monthly/Under an uncle’s will, and in addition had private capital. She 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 on the Wanganella’s last trip. Her future plans were uncertain, but she considered that she might possibly settle in New Zealand. She was 62 years old. Miss Denforth speaks with a French accent, which she ascribed to having been brought up in a French convent school, in Canada. HEALTH REASONS. ( (Recd. February 16, Noon.) CANBERRA, February 16. It is stated officially that Miss Danforth was refused permission to enter Australia for health reasons, after she had been examined by quarantine officers on arrival at Sydney. Specific provision is made in the Quarantine Act for the exclusion of any person, for health reasons.