STOWAWAYS FROM HOME

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 9

STOWAWAYS FROM HOME

"DISTANT FIELDS LOOKED GREEN." TWO MEN SENT TO GAOL. , MR. HUNT'S SORROW. "These two men could not get regular work in Liverpool—distant fields looked green, so they went aboard this vessel, and now they are here," said Sub-Inspec-tor McCarthy, at the Police Court this morning when John Joseph Rice (20) and John Joseph Power (22), pleaded guilty to charges of stowing away on board too s.s. Tairoa at Liverpool on Auguste 31 last. ■ . ■ The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, said it was difficult to know what to do with these men. If they were not punished in any way it would only encourage others to stow away on ships. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said neither had any money to pay the boat fare. The captain of the Tairoa, in evidence, said Rice and Power were discovered 18 hours after, the Tairoa had cleared-Liver-pool. Both worked very well iudeed oil the voyage. Mr. Hunt: Have you had any trouble with stowaways lately?— Yes, we had some from New Zealand on our last voyage Home, and we had to stop in. mid-ocean and put them off.. "I'm very sorry to have to send you there up above,". Mr. Hunt told both men after he consigned them to Mount Eden for 14 days.