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POLICEMAN RAN AWAY WITH HIS PASSPORT ECHO OF WAR-TIME (THE SUE'S Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON. Wednesday. There was a curious echo of wartime in a petition put before the House to-day by Mr. H. E. Holland, on behalf of Thomas Ormston, of Tahmoor, New South Wales, who was detained on the wharf at Auckland when about to sail by the Niagara for Canada on June 13, 1916, and who has ever since been trying to discover the reason for his detention. Ormston. who was on his way to Canada to enlist, said he was about to go aboard the Niagara, but when ho presented his passport a policeman ran away with it. H© was prevented from leaving until the next boat, and his luggage, which was already aboard, was carried on to Vancouver without him. After some delay he interviewed the Hon. G. W. Russell, then Minister of Internal Affairs, at Wellington, and when he suggested that he was entitled to compensation for the delay, got the reply: “You will not get a damn penny: take my advice, and get out of New Zealand as soon as you can.” Subsequently Ormston served with the Canadian engineers. and was wounded. He is now poultry-farming in New South Wales —and is still trying to find out why he was detained on the wharf at Auckland 12 years ago.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 12
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227LEFT BEHIND Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 12
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