SEAMAN’S TROUBLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 7

SEAMAN’S TROUBLES.

TREATED AS AN ALIEN. NOT WANTED IN AMERICA. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Tuesday. The misfortunes of George Turner, an Australian seaman, were related by him on the arrival of the Niagara. He was paid off the steamer Papanui at New York. 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. Americans arranged for his deportation, and he was sent by train to Seattle and by- steamer to Vancouver, where he and another Australian were locked in a cabin on the Niagara.

Turner says he was fairly treated by the Americans. His grievance is against the Canadians. An insult added to injury was the fact that although a British subject his train ticket issued by the Canadian National Railways was stamped “ Rejected alien.”