NAA: A1, 1917/10767

Czaykowska, Janina Wiktorya Berenda

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Details

Occupation as writtenJournalist
Standardised occupationPP11: Public services and Professionals - Literature
Application received1 Jan 1915
Application status Denied
OfficialA.H.
Date of approval or denial30 Aug 1915
Date of final conclusion30 May 1917
If rejected, why?enemy alien. suspicion of spying
Birthplace as writtenWasylaw, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Modern countryPoland
Age on application28
Age on arrival in Australia23
Port of DepartureManila, Philippines
Port of ArrivalSydney
Date of arrival1 Jun 1910
Name of shipNikko Maru
VoyageNikko Maru (1910-11-13)

Addresses

Address in Australia'Finbar', Kirribilli Point, Sydney
Address StateNew South Wales
Time at address5 years

Family

MarriedNo
ChildrenNo

References

Name of referenceIsaac Henry Pouder
Occupation of referenceJustice of the Peace (New South Wales)
Marginalia description

Austrian

Police report attachedYes
Link to other applicant
LiterateYes

Why are they applying?

Reasonother
Other information

Economic need: she had been offered work in local public library in Sydney if naturalised.

Further comments

p.42: She writes on application about address: 'during this period I have been absent from Australia on thrree short trips to New Zealand, South Sea Islands and Java. The last trip occupieed from July 15.1914. to Oct.1.1914.'

Originally applied 1915. 28 in 1915, resident for 5 years. Single. ‘The lady is a journalist.’ Rejected in 1915 because periodically travelled to NZ and around Pacific islands. NSW premiere’s secretary and other officials write on her behalf as publicly supporting Poland and working with needy Polish people – se DEA Memorandum, Momander, 16/3/17, p.18-29

See letter from minister, 3 May 1917, explaining refusal (p.15). Mentions her short residence. Secret reason on p.16, Hunt to Glynn, 1 May 1917: ‘authorities strongly suspect her, though they have no evidence such as might be taken into Court and they cannot tell me of any particular facts, but there is no doubt they have strong and perfectly bona fide suspicion that the lady is playing the double game. She is attractive and can make herself extremely agreeable and useful, hence the excellent reports that one gets regarding her but all the same they cannot rid themselves of their very deep-rooted suspicion.’

See also NAA: B543, W216/1/2098, barcode 412777. Miss Czaykowska - Polish Relief