TOURIST'S COMPLAINT.
DEPOSIT PAID ON LANDING. " A USUAL REQUIREMENT." A complaint of unfair treatment in being required to deposit £lO before being allowed to enter New Zealand was made by Mr. P. Muller, a retired banker, of Berlin, who arrived by the Tofua at Auckland yesterday. Mr. Muller said he and Mrs. Muller had travelled across half the worV and this was tho first occasion on which they had bad to pay a deposit before entering a country. It was their first visit to New Zealand and the requirement had not made a good impression. "Wo cano to spend money and wo find that wo have to doposit some before reaching land," said Mr. Muller. Mr. J. Mcintosh., collector of customs, said yesterday that tho requirement was quite a usual one in the case of foreign visitors who had no permit to land. There was an average of one or two visitors so placed on practically every vessel coming to New Zealand. The money was refunded when the visitor left tho country.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 8
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172TOURIST'S COMPLAINT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20990, 29 September 1931, Page 8
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