WRONG KIND OF IMMIGRANTS

NZ Truth, Issue 1062, 1 April 1926, Page 10

WRONG KIND OF IMMIGRANTS

(From "Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) . ■'■ -At the Auckland Supreme Court last week Judge Herdman was faced with two comparatively recent arrivals m the I country who were up for sentence for acts of dishonesty. Wilfred Lowe pleaded guilty to forgery by altering a Post Pffice bank-book to read £300 instead of £3. He was admitted to probation a short time ago for false pretences; The Judge said he deserved no consideration and was; not the sort of immigrant this country wanted. The sentence Was two years' hard labor. H ' Charles Henry Whitehead admitted breaking, entering and theft "-'to the "value of £20. He i said ' ''drink' Was his trouble. The Judge^ remarked ; that Whitehead also was a very recent arrival from ''Britain. The presence of these men (iid not say much for the type of people coming into the country. >7 Whitehead ;was handed over to the care of the prison authorities for reformative treatment for a period riot exceeding two years. L, , ' , „ •. ' ' i' i i ' "_i ■ ", ' i ' =ji