A SINN FEIN ENVOY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18141, 12 January 1921, Page 5

A SINN FEIN ENVOY

NOT WANTED IN NEW ZEALAND. PREVENTED PROM LANDING. (P*b United Press Association.} WELLINGTON. January 1L So- far New Zealand has not been, much troubled with Sinn Fein Propaganda, but recently some circulars regarding the cause have been received through the Post Office. One circular urges the owners of the New Zealand dairy factories to contribute to the rebuilding of dairy factories in Ireland destroyed by. fire during the rebellion. It is reported that when the R.MJ3. Mature arrived in Auckland from Vancouver on Thursday last the police boarded the steamer and served a notice under section 5 of “The Undesirable Immigrants’ Exclusion Act. 1919,” on a saloon passenger named Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonde, who was bound for Sydney, prohibiting bis landing in New Zealand. Under ordinaVy .circumstances he would have been permitted to land, but inquiries elicited the information, that during the voyage of the Maknra from Vancouver he exhibited papers which, showed him to be connected with the Irish Diplomatic Mission. It is understood that several. of the passengers of the steamer complained to the polio© about the attitude of Esmond© concerning his mission. BANNED IN AUSTRALIA. Frees Association—By Telegraph—CopyrightSYDNEY, January 11. (Received January 11, at 9.5 p.m.) Mr Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmonds arrived by the Makura claiming to b© engaged on a highly important diplomatic mission in connection with the Home Buie movement in Ireland, but was refused permission to land at any port in Australia.. He is a son of Sir Thomas Esmonde, a a ex-member for North Wexfort in the House of Commons.