Insult to Injury
EXPERIENCE OF AUSTRALIAN SEAMAN. CANADIAN IMMIGRATION LAWS (Per Press Association) AUCKLAND, Last Night. The misfortunes of Air George Turner, an Australian seaman, were related by him on his arrival by the Niagara. He was paid off the steamer Papanui at New York and was unable to find another ship within 60 days. He tried to cross the border into Canada but was sent back by the Canadian immigration officials at Niagara Falls and spent two months in an American gaol. The Americans arranged for his deportation and he was sent by train to Seattle and steamer to Vancouver, where he and another Australian were locked in a cabin on the Niagara. Mr Turner says that he was fairly treated by the Americans. His grievance was against the Canadians. Insult was added to injury by the fact that, although a British subject, his train ticket, issued by the Canadian National Railways, was stamped “rejected alien. ’ ’
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 129, 5 November 1930, Page 2
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