TOUR RESUMED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 143, 19 June 1931, Page 3

TOUR RESUMED.

AMERICAN STOWAWAYS. HOME VIA CHINA AND JAPAN. SEQUEL TO MISUNDERSTANDING. The tour of the two American college students, who boarded the Swedish motor ship Bullaren at San Pedro, thinking that it was going to Oakland, broken yesterday when they were arrested as stowaways, wae continued this morning on the same ship. When the dungaree-clad youths, William Albert North and Thomas Vance, appeared at the Police Court again r this morning, the police stated that the captain of the Bullaren consented to take them back on the ship and out of the Dominion. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., thereupon dismissed the charges of stowing away. Both students seemed overjoyed when they realised that they were to go back Ito the Bullaren, and not to gaol, on ' further remand. They sailed on the Bullaren for Wellington shortly after noon to-day. It will be some time before they return to the State Teachers' College at San Jose, California. An interesting tour is ahead of them. From Wellington the Bullaren will go to a number of Australian ports, thence to China and Japan', via Manila, and afterwards back to California. Of course they will have to work for their keep, but they do not mind -that. "We went on board to get experience during our college vacation, and were told that the ship was going to Oakland, juet 500 miles away," they said this morning. "We misunderstood the name, however —it was Auckland and not Oakland."