UNWANTED IMMIGRANT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 5

UNWANTED IMMIGRANT

Unable to Land at Sydney CANADIAN WOM^N'S RETURN (By Telegraph— Prees Asaociation.) . ' WELLINGTON, Last Night. "They told me I was too old and not rich enough," said Miss Denforth, of Montreal, Canada, who returned to New Zealand to-day by the Wattganella. She was the woman stated in cabled reports to have been refused permission to land at Sydney except subject to certain conditions, which she declined to accept. She stated in an interview on arrival at Wellington that she waa unfamiliar with the Australian immigration laws and did not understand why she had not been allowed to land. "Maybe (someone spoke against me," said Miss Denforth. "I have always led an unreproachful life." Miss Denforth stated that she had been given to understand that it was necessary to put down £200 to enter Australia, and more than that. She received £50 monthly under an uncle'B will and in addition had private capital. She had come out from Canada to settle in a country with a warm climate. She. had spcnt Christmas and New Year at HonoMu, but as she did not feel so well there she came on to Auckland, and later proceeded to Sydney on the Wanganella 's last trip. Her future plans were uncertain, but she considered that she might possibly settle in New Zealand. She was 62 years old. Miss Denforth speaks with a French accent, which she aseribed to having been brought up in a French convent school in Canada.