NOT GOING TO GAOL
YOUNG SWEDE TO BE DEPORTED THE BATH-TUB ADVENTURER. (United, Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The .Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunter) stated that the sentence of imprisonment would not be imposed on Karl Hjelmstrom, the Swedish, apprentice who deserted from the barque C. B. Pedersen:, and embarked on a voyage through Torres Strait, intending to sail to New Guinea in the captain’s bath-tub with a sail: rigged up.
Hjelmstrom, who failed in a dictation test in French at Thursday Island and was charged with being a prohibited immigrant, being sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, pending deportation, will be merely deported. The -Swedish Consul at Sydney has undertaken to see that Hjelmstrom is looked after until he leaves the country, and he will be brought to Sydney and placed under the care of the Consul.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 246, 31 July 1935, Page 5
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