EVENTFUL VOYAGE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19460, 6 November 1928, Page 10

EVENTFUL VOYAGE.

THE AORANGI'S PASSENGERS.

[THE PRESS Special Service.]

AUCKLAND, November 6.

Two deaths occurred during the voyage of the Aorangi from Vancouver to Auckland. The vessel arrived in Auckland last evening. The first Was that of a second-class passenger, H. Penhall, aged 60, of Sydney, and the second that of Miss M. Mabson, aged 58, of Invercargill. Two passengers who went on a motor drive at Suva during the vessel's brief stay at that port suffere'd injuries. Mr and Mrs J. Gold, of Sydney, hired a car with an Indian driver, and met with a crash while on a tour. Mr Gold received severe injuries and Mrs Gold bruises and shock.

A boy of 13, who was a third-class passenger, fell down No. 3 hold while the Aorangi was at Suva and struck a mail bag 30. feet below. He escaped with only slight injuries. Early in the voyage an Australian stowaway was found while en route from Victoria to Honolulu. Three more stowaways got on board at Honolulu, two Americans and a Filipino, and concealed their identity for two days under the gnise of second-class passengers. The Americans made no attempt to hide themselves, in the second-class saloon, and "ok part in the games On deck. The discovery that they were stowaways was made by an officer on the second night out, and when questioned why they were walking the deck late at night they replied that it was too warm in their cabin and they decided on a promenade. They gave the number of a cabin, and investigation showed that it was occupied.