CAUGHT AFTER 11 YEARS
AUSTRALIAN IN U.S.A. DEPORTED OK MONTEREY ( Per I'ii'ss Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. Alter eluding the American immigration authorities tor 11 years, ai Australian, aged 42, who was arrestee when be indiscreetly let slip tin eountrv of his birth is being deportee in the liner Monterey and is now travelling to Sydney. "The Americans are all right tlr uuh they are fairly keen on tlv quota. 1 would have been there >v; it 1 had not f;ot drunk one day one told them I was an. Australian. Arte. that thev could not help arrestm me and giving me a one-way ticke to Australia."
For nine years he worked as ; sewing machine salesman. "The Matson Line agent said til company was under a £2OO bond l land the dcDortce in Australia. "We are taking him on trust far as Auckland is concerned.' he said "We have his word that he \vr return with the Monterey and that: enough."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 11
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160CAUGHT AFTER 11 YEARS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19821, 24 December 1938, Page 11
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