NATIVE OF DENMARK
PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT SEAMAN BEFORE COURT (0.C.) _ NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Admitting that, as a native of Nazioccupied Denmark, he was a prohibited immigrant. Svend Hansen, a seaman, appeared before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court. He was remanded in custody for sentence next Friday. There was also a charge of desertion against Hansen, and on this he was remanded for a week without being asked to plead. He was alleged to have deserted from a Norwegian vessel at a South Island port on August IS. As the requisite papers had not arrived from there, Senior-Sergeant C. M. Anniss asked for the remand. Explaining the prohibited immigrant proceedings, Mr. J. M. O'Reilly, collector of customs and chief immigrant officer at New Plymouth, said Hansen had no permit to stav in New Zealand. A n unusual aspect of the case was that Hansen called boldly at the New Plymouth Placement Office and asked for work, and apparently he had done the same at other placement offices. A wide-awake official at New Plymouth, however, sent him to Mr. O'Reilly at the customs office. Mr. O'Reilly telephoned the police, and Hansen was arrested.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24084, 1 October 1941, Page 6
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