UNFORTUNATE INDIAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 1

UNFORTUNATE INDIAN

FOOLED BY CUNNING COMPATRIOT MUST LEAVE COUNTRY Claiming that his client, an Indian* who is ignorant of the English language, had been deceived by a fellow countryman »nd defrauded of £l5O, Mr. Jacobean asked for leniency when Bhagtu was charged at the Police Court this morning. Bhagtu, a labourer, aged 37, was charged with overstaying the terjn specified in his temporary immigration Permit. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., ordered him to be deported and fined him £2O. Mr. Jacobsen pleaded guilty and aaid the man had not deliberately overstayed his time. Two years ago he had given a fellow countryman £l5O to arrange an extension of his Permit. He was astounded when he M as arrested while he was working in |he country because he had genuinely nougat he was a free man. He told _ ° police that the trouble would be , up when he reached AuckCounsel asked for leniency, curing the court that Bhagtu would a V * * or l nc *ia immediately, to Mr. J. Mclntosh, for MF^. Cl i sloms Apartment, Bhagtu had •’Q lV^L in New Zealand on December ttV. ~ *• He was a professional and the Wrestling Associaobtained an extension of six an* « * or kina. He was two years na five months over his time. It hj f® thought for a time that the man S? for T’eru, but he was arrested ™£nursday in Hawke’s Bay. tw T* fault of the fine was fixed at d months’ imprisonment and a POrtation order was made. t a u ntinfir out that Bhagtu had been *£*2 2 0Wn for £l5O, Mr. Jacobsen ***' * tor deferred execution of the powli on order, so that the man _ uid return to the country and collect owln S to him. BSao* the ma K is trate agreed to, and thlr“L tu jy as given a month s grace on «E£. aitlon that he found a surety