U.S. NEGRO BOXER DEPORTED BY AUST. AFTER 15 YEARS
(11 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 6. Charles Parks, aged 43, an American negro boxer, known as “Tiger” Parks, has been deported after 15 years In Australia.
Immigration and police officers placed Parks aboard a Pan-American Airways Clipper which left Sydney for San Francisco at midnight. Parks, who married an Australian girl, had lived for 15 years at Port Lincoln, South Australia. His permit to remain in Australia had been extended several times.
Parks said the Australian Government would meet the expense of sending his wife and five-year-old son to California where he would make a home for them.
“I have no resentment against Australia,” he-said, “but I do regret that this country, with all its virtues, does not have one more—the virtue of the racial tolerance.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22915, 6 April 1949, Page 7
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