NOT WANTED!

Mataura Ensign, 23 March 1909, Page 2

NOT WANTED!

A.N EYiUAOiiIIINAKV CASE. I'Elt U.NHKII I'UISS ASSOUIAIION. EY'HELTO.V .March 2,'1. A strange circumstance hah collie tc light in connection with a man 11a11n.11 Baldwin, a steerage passenger oil tile Kileshire. He went U> England in 1900 lor the henelit ol his health and returned liv the Eileshirc, intending to go home to lnvcrcargill where he had livou lor ;10 .years. Hcing |iarlially paralysed 111 Hie legs tlie Customs Department in Auckland rolused to allow 111111 to land under section I of the Immigration Hestrietion Act. The man has been living on hoard all the time Hie vessel ]ia> 1 11 on the coast and has vainly trien 10 communicate with his relatives and lie presumes tliuy do not want 111111.

Mr l.aiireiisoii. ,M.l'., telegraphed ti the .Minister lor Customs suggesting that daunt* 17 co\ered the case and it was expected that the man would he released.

During last evening, however, Baldwin took the law into his own hands and came ashore with Ins belongings, presumably having had some assistance, and he has not heen lound. It he liatl stayed on hoard ami no alteration had heen made in his.attitude the otticials would have heen compelled to return liini to England 111 the vessel, which sails to-dav.

.Much indignation is that an old resident with Ins liiiuily in tile Dominion, having gone to England in M-iiri'li nl health, should In' prevented from returning on account ui an 'ilit'mity, especially a.s thr paralysis 's alleged tu havn hot'ii contracted during his employment nl luvercargill.