CITIZENSHIP DISPUTED
Stowaway on Makura
DEPORTATION ORDERED it 4,’eiegrapn—Frees Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. According to his own statement which he maintained before the Magistrate, Mr J. H. Luxford, Louis Bruno, aged 24, is a New Zealand citizen, but he, nevertheless, was ordered to be removed from the Dominion at the first opportunity. Mr Paul, Collector of Customs, said that accused arrived in Wellington on Monday as a stowaway by the Makura from Sydney. He claimed that he was born in Ponsonby, Auckland, and left some years ago on an oil tanker. Since then he had served on several American vessels and returned to Auckland in 1933, he stated, by the tanker New Zealand, from which he deserted, and he later went to Australia. Mr Paul said that an exhaustive search of the records between 1909 and 1917 failed to reveal a record of accused’s name and date of birth. Accused did not give evidence on oath, and stated that he had signed on for New Zealand under another name in order to avoid deportation from America.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 223, 3 September 1936, Page 7
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