“A HORRIBLE MESS’’
AUSTRALIAN PORT SYSTEM DENOUNCED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 31, 11.25 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 31. Complaints made to-day by the Monterey’s passengers about having to wait in a long queue in stifling heat for medical inspection and Immigration examination were frequently bitter. Sir Sydney Snow declared: “The tedious process of 600 people lined up for well over an hour in sweltering humidity, awaiting the pleasure of Government officers was a very bad advertisement for the port.” Sir Sydney suggested that Australia was probably the hardest port in the world to enter. Sir Charles Marr, M.P., characterised the hold-up as a horrible mess.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21182, 1 November 1938, Page 7
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