"PERMITS PLEASE!"

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11757, 22 July 1916, Page 6

"PERMITS PLEASE!"

TRAVELLER'S AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. It was the duty of a police officer told off for that- purpose (says the Wellington "Dominion'') to examine the travelling permits of male passengers as they embark on an oversea voyage, and considerable trouble may ensue upon an evasion of the law in this regard. This was illustrated half an hour before the Moeraki sailed for Sydney on Thursday evening. A through passenger for Sydney from America, (ex Maitai) —a- Melbourne young man, who had been studying at a Canadian University—went "to board the Moeraki, when "he was bailed, up for his permit. He was unable to produce it, and told the constable at the gangway that his papers were in the keeping of the purser. The constable said he could not allow him on board, nor could he go on board with him to interview the purser. The young man, who was, well and favourably known to other through passengers, wished to know what he could do. t The constable advised liim to interview the u~ of Internal Affairs. As such advice, under the circumstance;!, was tlio traveller's chance of resuming his voyage last Gvening looked blue, when an other constable arrived and inquired into the matter, with the result that the unhappy one was allowed to embark, with the warning that if he came ashore again he would be arrested. The same young man stated to a fel-low-passenger that if he did not arrive in Melbourne nejxt wryk he wioukl have to forfeit a scholarship he had won.