MAN WITH BAD RECORD
ALLOWED TO ENTER DOMINION PROTEST ENTERED BY JUDGE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 31. ■ A suggestion that consideration should be given to devising means, if they do not already exist, to prevent persons with bad criminal records from coming to New Zealand was made by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court to-day. when he sentenced Douglas James Goundry to lour years’ imprisonment and declared him an habitual criminal on five charges of indecent assault on males. Goundry, aged 56, a single man, pleaded guilty. “In reading the papers in this case, it struck me very forcibly that it was an extraordinary thing that a man with a record of this kind, who was recently released from prison jn England, should be allowed to enter the Dominion at all.” said the judge. “I suggest for consideration that the records of persons desiring to immigrate to the Dominion should be scrutinised.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25629, 1 September 1944, Page 6
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