NO POWER TO ORDER DEPORTATION
CASE OF AN AUSTRALIAN CRIMINAL J’ AUCKLAND, Apr ft 22, “j. have no power to order deportation,” Raid Mr Justine Herman in the Auckland Supreme Court ill sentencing Arthur Martin Wellington (forty-nine) a seaman of Australia, to three years’ imprisonment Avith hard labour. His Honour added that tlie CroAvn authorities Avere looking into the matter, and it was for them to determine whether, at tlie ,end of the sentence, the prisoner should he remo.ycd to Australia.
Mr Noble, on behalf of the prisoner said he appreciated the fact that Wellington had a thoroughly bad record. When he arrived in Neiv Zealand he had only 2s 3d. lie Avas in a state of destitution, and took a job at LI a week. That Avas inadequate, and lie returned to “his old career.”
His Honour in passing sentence, said it seemed that the Immigration Act should be amended to enable a magistrate to order the deporta ain ol a man, and when a criminal reached the Supreme Court, judges sho :ld have power to make an order for chvenation. At the present time they had ! ot. that power. The prisoner had pleaded guilty to breaking and entering two places. From one place, Hallenstein’s Buildings, he stole goods valued at £126 4s. The prisoner had a long list covering twenty years in Australia. He was certainly not the kind of person that was wanted in New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1931, Page 2
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