ALABAMA KID’S VISIT
AUSTRALIAN DEPORTEE KEPT IN SHIP'S "BRIG” (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 20. “I’m sorry the visit isn’t under such pleasant circumstances as the 1941 trip,’’ said an American negro boxer, Alabama Kid, grinning from behind the bars of the "brig” in the Marine Phoenix. He is travelling as a passenger at sea, but is in brig while in port. His real name is Clarence Reeves, aged 34. He lived in Australia for seven years and married an Australian. He is being sent back to America by the Australian Government and hopes .that his wife and two children will follow him in six weeks. “I guess it's because of this white Australia policy that I am being deported,” he drawled. He said there were no people in the world nicer than Australians and New Zealanders.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22617, 21 April 1948, Page 5
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