TRIED NEW ZEALAND.
STOWAWAYS FROM AUSTRALIA. "THOUSANDS ARE STARVING." (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Two stowaways from Australia, George Henry Wood and John Herbert Lyon, were sentenced~to a month in gaol at Lyttelton this morning. Asked if they had anything to say, Wood stated he had been up against it in Australia for the past eighteen months. He had a family to support, and had to endeavour to obtain work. Lyon stated that there were thousands in Australia tramping the country and going into the bush, who were, practicallv without shoes and clothes, and were starving. "Before letting myself go down to that, ,, he said, ."I decided to give New Zealand a trial."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 11
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113TRIED NEW ZEALAND. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 11
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