STICKING TOGETHER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 5

STICKING TOGETHER.

ITINERANT GIPSIES

RETURN TO AUSTRALIA

{Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day

The party of nineteen gipsies who ar rived by the Aorangi from Sydney on .Monday' and were refused permission to land by the Customs Department, returned to Australia by the Marama. The Customs Department decided to permit nine members of the party to land, but they preferred not to separate, and all decided to return to Sydney. The party all bear the same narnp and are really members of one family, which consists of the mother and father, with their children and grandchildren. A party of gypsies of the same name arrived' at Wellington last . Jline and travelled to Auckland, leading a camp life during the greater part of the time. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining hotel accommodation while at Grey town the party became involved in troubles with the authorities. They finally sailed from Auckland in duly, and as a result of the trouble which arose, the Customs Department issued instructions that in future parties of gipsies bearing the same name as those .who toured the Dominion last year should not be permitted to land pending instructions. Tt was for this reason that tho party was not allowed to land on Monday, and their return to Australia followed.

Tho gipsies denied that they, were the same party as those who toured the Dominion last year, but were not in a position to disprove it. Nine members of the party who could have landed had obtained unconditional permits to land in New Zealand from the Government's agent in Melbourne, and flic Government decided to honor these permits. However, all the gipsies returned to Australia, preferring (o slick together.