ENEMY ALIEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1940, Page 6

ENEMY ALIEN

FINED IN WELLINGTON POSSESSION OF PISTOL & CAMERAS. IGNORANCE OF LAW PLEADED. (By Telegraph—Press ’Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Possession of an automatic pistol was responsible for the appearance of Philip Edmund Kunz, dental surgeon, a refugee from Germany, before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. Kunz was fined £lO and a further £lO for possessing, as an enemy alien, two cameras. The pistol and cameras, said to 'be worth £lOO, were confiscated. Kunz, in evidence, said he left Germany as a result of Nazi repression and lived in Switzerland for a while near the German border. He said he kept the pistol because, if the Nazis caught him, they would shoot him, and he intended to anticipate them by . shooting himself if necessary. Nobody told him he had to declare a firearm when entering New' Zealand. The pistol was in parts and the cameras were not used. All refugees had cameras, as that was a means of getting valuables out of Germany. It was pointed out for Kunz that the regulation forbidding the possession of cameras by aliens was brought in after Kunz’s arrival.