RAPID TRAVELLER

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 5

RAPID TRAVELLER

POLE’S EXCURSIONS USE OF EXPIRED PASSPORT RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND ' v Au unusual set of circumstances lies behind tho travels of a young Pole, who has returned to New Zealand after being refused permission to enter Canada. I lie story of his journeyings during the past year has been one of rapid visits to many countries. When the Union Company’s liner Aorangi arrived at Auckland from \ ancouver recently, the young Pole, who was evidently thought by some people to be a Russian, was a passenger. Because his passport had expired, he was refused admission to Canada by the immigration authorities at Vancouver. Something of the sort was expected when the man, who is 26 years old, left Auckland for Vancouver on October 18. At almost the sailing time of the Aorangi on that date, the man hurried into the shipping agents’ office and, saying tha he had come hastily from Hamilton, ie asked to book a first-class passage. It was then noted that the man s passport had expired The man agreed to the company’s request that he should pur chase a return ticket to Auckland. It was pointed out to him that such a course was desirable, because there was a possibility that the Canadian authon ties would not make out a fresh passpoia to allow him to travel in Canada.

MANY CONSULAR VISAS In Auckland, the man said he wanted to travel to London. The company said it would refund tho return fare if the man were permitted to land in Canada and travel through that Dominion to England. As it happened, he was rei used permission to laud on the ground that his passport was invalid. The passport in question was issued to tho Pole, who i 9 described as a student, at Warsaw, on July 4, 1931, by the Government of Poland. It expired on July 4, 1952. According to an outline of the young man’s movements available in Auckland, the passport bore consular visas for travel in Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden The report states that other visas lnchVcate that, on October 17, 1931, there was a visa by the British passport control in Paris for a visit of one month to the United Kingdom. Three days later, there was a Russian endorsement on the passport, made in Leningrad. next endorsement showed a landing at Dover, but the date has not been noted.

A VISIT TO CHILE The passport further showed an endorsement by the police at Colombo, Ceylon, dated December 31, 1931, and a visa for travel in Chile, affixed by the Chilean Consul-General in Sydney on January 29, 1932. The report states that the young Pole went by way of Panama to Chile, where he remained in February and March. He was in New Zealand in April of the present year. The passport showed a visa on April 14 by the Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, for travel to France by way of Australia and the United Kingdom. The young man’s name was on the list of passengeis on the Aorangi, which sailed for Sydney on April 18. The next endorsement on the passport was at the Italian frontier on May 31, 1932, indicating that the man changed vessels at Port Said and followed the route to Paris through Brindisi and by the Italian overland express. Next appeared a Latvian visa, the date not being noted, and. one by the British passport control, Paris, for a month’s visit to Britain, dated June 6. On June 7, the young man arrived at Crovdon by aeroplane, and, only nine days later, the passport showed an endorsement at Colombo. Since that date, he came to New Zealand by way of Australia, and then sailed from Ashland to Vancouver, from which city he has returned to New Zealand.