TO LONDON AND BACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 224, 21 September 1932, Page 7

TO LONDON AND BACK.

STOWAWAYS' VOYAGING. IMPRISONED IN ENGLAND. SENTENCED AGAIN IN AUCKLAND. Two "passengers" who reached Auckland from London by the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company's steamer Raranga last evening were met by members of the waterfront police«station. In the Police Court this morning both men pleaded guilty to stowing away on board the Piaranga at London on August 11.

It was learnt from officers of the ship that before the Raranga sailed from London a thorough search had been made for stowaways, but that none had been found. On the day after sailing the two men had emerged from the coal bunkers and had given themselves up. The stowaways were put to work on deck and were handed over to the police when the steamer reached Auckland.

The stowaways stepped into the dock ! at the Police Court to-day when the ' names of James Norman Turner (30), - and James Fitzgerald (26) were called. 1 Both were described as labourers. '• "These men stowed away on board the ( same company's steamer Tairoa at YVel- '■ lington on May 24," said Detective Ser- - geant Mcllugli. "On arrival in London s they were sentenced to 2S days' imprisonment. Upon their release they 1 knocked about London for a couple of weeks and then stowed away on the Raranga for their return passage to New Zealand." Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.: They seem to be a pair of professional stowaways. It was said that stowaways were becoming a nuisance to the shipping companies who now had to employ a man to keep the unwanted "passengers" from hiding themselves on board. Turner claimed to be an Australian and Fitzgerald was a New Zealander. "Twenty-one days each," said the magistrate. The only other "passengers" that arrived by the Raranga were two pedigree dogs. A Gordon setter was consigned to a local police constable and a wire-haired fox terrier will leave the ship at Wellington; i