AUTOMATIC PISTOL

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1940, Page 9

AUTOMATIC PISTOL

GERMAN REFUGEE FINED [PER press association.] WELLINGTON, November 29. Possession of an automatic pistol was responsible for the appearance of Philip Edmund Kunz, dental surgeon, a refugee from Germany, before Mr. Stout, S.M. He was fined £lO, and a further £lO for possessing, as an enemy alien, two cameras. The pistol and cameras, said to be worth £lOO, were confiscated. Kunz, in evidence, said that he left Germany as a result of Nazi repression, and lived in Switzerland for a while, near the German border. He said that he kept the pistol'because, if the Nazis caught him, they would shoot him, and he intended to anticipate them by shooting himself, if necessary. Nobody told him that he ,had ter declare the firearm when entering New Zealand. The pistol was in parts, and the cameras were not used. All refugees had cameras, as that was a means of getting valuables out of Germany. It was pointed out, for Kunz, that the regulation forbidding aliens tc have possession of cameras was brought in after Kunz’s arrival.