COMMUNIST'S TROUBLES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16975, 5 March 1926, Page 7

COMMUNIST'S TROUBLES.

EXPELLED FROM NEW ZEALAND

NOT WANTED IN AUSTRALIA

(Received March 5, 1 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 5. •■ In the House of Representatives a case in which a. New Zealand citizen was cently sentenced at the Dunedin Police Court for having in his possession Communist literature was the subject of a | series of questions to Mr. Bruce, who replied that it was a fact that in the case of Kenneth McLean Baxter, the matristrate suspended sentence', on condition ' that Baxter left the Dominion. When it was brought under the notice of the "'■ Minister for Home and Territories that Baxter intended leaving for Australia, ' authority for his entry was refused and notification was telegraphed to New Zcr- ' land. Baxter, however, had made all arrangements for departure and had his , furniture aboard a vessel about to .jonvn, - New Zealand, and was unable to get it off. He had previously resided in Au«tralia for seven years, and his wife was | a native of the Commonwealth. Baxter J was restricted from landing in Australia, >; but in view of his wife's health, whiehj|| involved a serious operation-at nn carlv | date, he would be permitted to land on a temporary exemption for six months. : during which period the- Department > would he in close tonch with him.