SHORT SHRIFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 192, 16 August 1939, Page 15

SHORT SHRIFT.

MAN DISEMBARKED.

WANGANELLA INCIDENT.

<• WHO'S WHO» ON BOARD.

Short shrift awaited a man who was foil• I to be aboard the Huddart-Parker m"t"i- liuor Wanganella without a ticket as I lie vessel, which reached Auckland to-.lay, was about to leave Sydney. The gangway was down and the ship ahon: to move out Into the stream when the riih r>'s presence became known. Supported by a rope he was *ent over the liner's side and lowered to the wharf.

Another "unauthorised paMenger," however, was not detected until it was too In I e (o land him. He spent the latter pa-rt of tlio voyage in the dummy funnel, the Wangauellu s celebrated room, ami on the arrival of the ship at Auckland to-day he went nsihore in the company of a police constable.

The unceremonious way in which the first, man wiM disembarked at Sydney w held to fiu'i'sluidn w the adoptkn of stricter way<4 uf dciilinnr with peopk? who arc founrl to lie al»>ard shi|>4 without a ill iioiil v. The number of stowaways and ;1111• ji• 11 stnwuwnvri on ships running to N 'U Jie'i'mifl lias been a matter of rnnceni i" siime «!ii|ipiii}{ companies. and it is believed Unit the end of the cnmparat ively leni<'iit treatmeiit which has been jfiveil to such persons on certain ve-<cls is in sifflit.

That a diet of bread and water, or som< thing like it, would go a long way to discourage the practice in one suggest 011 favoured by officers. Among the Passengers.

A total of ltili passengers was brought by the Wanganella, and they enjoyed a fairly good classing of the Taainau.

Ten years to the day since he left Auckland to carry out post-graduate studies at Cambridge University, Dr. A. H. McDonald, a former student at the Auckland Gratntiiar School and Auckland University College, returned on a holiday visit from Sydney. At the present time he occupies the position of reader in ancient world hietory at the Sydney University,

After two years at Cambridge Dr. McDonald spent a year in Germany. He returned to Cambridge for a year, and for the five succeeding years was lecturer in ancient history at the Notting? ham University. He took up hie appointment in Sydney jn March last, and amongst hip tasks is the editing of the Oxford edition of Llvy, which was begun by Professor Conway. He will epend tliree weeks in the Dominion, and with hie mother, who accompanied him from Sydney, will YW»|t friends in Auckland and North Auckland. Dr. McDonald *aid that hjis appointment as readier in history in Sydney represented an advance in the teaching of history on lines with a* wide a perspective ae possible. Journalist Fetyrns.

After carrying out journalistic worjc in Sydney, Air, W. K. Crawford, formerly of Auckland <in 4 Wfcangarei, returned to go immediately to Whangarei, where lie will again work op the "Northern Advocate. wrn accompanied by >tra, Crawford and the}r three-month-old daughter. Mr. Crawford had intended to remain longer oversea#, but hw earlier return waa necessary by the recent death P f bis father, thp late Mr. H. W. Crawford. Professor J. Enoch-Powell, professor of Oreeli at Sydney University, arrived on a visit to New Zealand.