UNFORTUNATE SEAMAN
HIS SORRY PLIGHT
(By Telegraph—
-Press Association)
AUCKLAND, Nov. 4. The misfortunes of George Turner, an Australian seaman, were related by him on his arrival by the Niagara. He was paid off the steamer Papamii at New York and was unable to find another ship within sixty days. He tried to: cross 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 a.rrauged for bis deportation. He- was Went by train to Seattle and steamer to Vancouver where be and* another Australian were locked in a cabin of the Niagara. Turner says lie was fairly treated by the Americans. His grievance, against the. Canadians was insult added to injury. The fact that although he was a. British subject his train ticket issued by the Canadian National Railways was stamped “rejected alien.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1930, Page 5
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148UNFORTUNATE SEAMAN Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1930, Page 5
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