HOPING FOR WORK.
AUSTRALIAN STOWAWAYS. "CONDITIONS COULD NOT BE WORSE." SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR POLICE. (By Telegrapli.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Three stowaways wlio came from Sydney on the Waikouaiti were to-day convicted and ordered to pay £7 10/ each, in default one week's gaol. One accuscd said conditions were very bad in Australia. They stowed away knowing the penalty, but they believed things could not be worse ill New Zealand. He liacl had one week's work in a year, and single men could not get relief rations. Public works had been stopped everywhere. The magistrate said he had every sympathy with the men, who were apparently able-bodied and were looking for work, but the law must be enforced. The police said the number of stowaways coming from Australia was increasing, and presenting a serious problem.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 11
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