NAVAL CASUALTY MISSING.
SHARPE, Alan, T/Sub-Lieut. (A ) Mrs .B. C. Sharps, 42 Wilson Street, Wanganul (m.).
NOT A DESIRABLE
IMMIGRANT WITH A RECORD P.A. AUCKLAND, August 31. The suggestion that consideration should be given to devising means, if they did not already exist, to prevent persons with bad criminal records from coming to New Zealand was made by Mr. Justice Fair in the Supreme Court today, when he sentenced Douglas James Goundry to four years' imprisonment and declared him a habitual criminal on five charges of indecent assault on males. Goundry, who is 56 single, pleaded guilty. "In reading the papers of this case it struck me very forcibly that it is an extraordinary thing that a man with a record of this kind and recently released from prison in England, apparently in 1938 or 1939, should be allowed to enter the Dominion at all," said the Judge. "The Dominion no doubt has a duty to facilitate the free movement of good citizens from one part of the Empire to another, but there is no duty on any part of the Empire to receive a man with a record so appalling as this man's. I suggest for consideration that the records of persons desiring to emigrate to the Dominion be closely scrutinised."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 6
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212NAVAL CASUALTY MISSING. Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 54, 1 September 1944, Page 6
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