FALSE DECLARATION
IMMIGRANTS IN TROUBLE LIABLE TO £IOO FINE. Sydney Percival Smith and Ethel May Smith appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on charges of making false declarations under the Undesirable Immigrants’ Exclusion Act, 1919. Sub-Inspector McNamara explained > that the pair had arrived in Wellington quite recently, and had smjbe been married. For reasons better known to themselves they had; since their antral, assumed false names. Each was liable to a fine of £IOO or twelve months’ imprisonment. “It is no use my imposing a heavy fine,” said His Wonhip, ‘‘because 1 don’t suppose .they would he able to pay. Each is fined 40s and costs.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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112FALSE DECLARATION New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 4
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