Immigration Tangle.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 4

Immigration Tangle.

NEW ZEALAND ROAIANCh

SAN FRANCISCO. June 2

1 mmigralion troubles tli',v:ii led t iif wav ol' two tourists from Now Zealand when they arrived at tin- Port of San Francisco on the 1 n•-1 trip of the Aiarnurn from Wellington. and as a result Aliss Kdilli K. Strongman. a ore pos sousing young Now Zealand, anil Mr Howard Xa liras,, acclaimed !>y I lie Ca.lifornian Press as “a. wealthy automobile dealer.” of Wellington. Xevv Zealand, spent a few awkward dnvs on the Immigration ls!and~in the Bay of San Francisco, ponding the invostigation of their status by a special hoard of enquiry commissioned by the American immigration nutl'erities. H seems that Mi s ‘-1 ranpeinan had expected lo lie met, hv friends when she arrived in port at San Franei-eo, hut the fact that they disappointed her by sailing unexpcctcdlv for f’nrnpe caused n <li-ti-essiiijr taiictlo in wliicb i'll' N'nttra'ss was a particinant. At the outset when .Miss Strangmnn learned that her friends had disappointed her, she agreed to withdraw her application for entry into the TTnilod States, whereupon. learning that the young woman would he detained by the Toiled Immigration authorities. Afr NVtrnss withdrew her own app'ieation. and then renewed both and decided to fight the inse. ‘•The enquiry is based on the tael that- Miss Strnnkoni.ni came Imre on the same vessel v.'iib me and the fact that, we are enraged io he married as soon -as ] can he divorced from the wife- with nhem 1 hrive not lived for several years,” said Air Xatlrass sho.rllv after he learned of the difficult ies faci'llg thA two visitors to San I'ra.neisi o. “There has been nothing wrong in our relations, and 1 sloill prove that to the immigration authorities.” No t ime was 1 :-1 by the immigration officials for an empiirv hv a. special investigation heard, where Mr Xattrn-s had (Oifnsel fo urge llie granting ol the two applications. A few hours prior to- the sailing of j the Afaraoia. on I lie return trip to New j Zealand it was announced that the special hi.an! at Ihe immigration headquarters a! Angel Bland had he"ii eon-; vineed that the presume i f the two j Xew Zealanders on the same steamer i “was a coincident e.” and accordingly the pair won the privilege of entry I into the t 'niled Slates. ; At the inquiry. Air Nat trass informed the authorities that he had met and j known Miss Strongman in Xew Zealand. Miss Strongman said that she had been eomiiig to San Fraueiseo to ! vi-it- friends in Pasadena. Southern i Calfeinia. and in Xew York citv. j Air .Xntti'ass explained that he was in San Fraueiseo for a few months on business with Anmr'ean automobile

.Miss Klrangntnn obtained.unenviable nr,tori iy in the Western Press by having the case written up at great length and having her photograph printed half life-size in the evening newspapers, one newspaper captioning the ease: “I'.S. Frowns On Her ]{omanco.”