JAPANESE FOOTING
LUGGERS ARE SUSPECTED.
A TOWNSVILLE STORY. Some remarkable stories are being told by skippers of Japanese pearling and fisbmg vessels to explain their absence on fishing cruises (says the Townsville correspondent of the' Sydney Daily Telegraph). One of the most recent, to the effect that a lugger had been caught in a gale and blown to New Caledonia, gave rise to a good deal of suspicion. 1 The Customs authorities at Townsville made careful inquiries, and are now satisfied beyond a shadow _of doubt that Japanese have been trying to hoodwink the authorities.
At Ingham two Japanese were arrested- on a charge of being prohibited immigrants. One was sentenced to six months’ gaol, and the other was discharged. At Stewart’s Creek, a few miles out of Townsville, three more Japanese were arrested on December 21 on a similar charge. Luggers in port have been detained by the authorities pending prosecutions for breaches of the Act.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIV, Issue 10066, 12 March 1924, Page 6
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