“REJECTED ALIEN”
SEAMAN’S MISFORTUNES •GAOLED IN AMERICA (Tor Press Association.) .AUCKLAND, this day. 'iho misfortunes of George Turner, an Australian seaman, were, related by him oil arrival by the Niagara. No was paid oil' the, steamer Papanui at .New York. Unable to find another ship within 60 days lie tried to cross the border into : Canada, but was sent hack by Canadian , immigration olficials at Niagara Falls,! and spent two months in an American gaol. Americans arranged for his deportation, and he was sent by train to Seattle, and stamper to Vancouver, where be and another Australian were locked in a cabin on the Niagara. Turner says he was fairly treated by tho Americans. His grievance is against the Canadians. Insult- was added to injury by the fact that although a British subject bis train ticket, issued by the Canadian National Railways, was stamped “rejected alien.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17407, 4 November 1930, Page 6
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