A STOWAWAY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19668, 11 July 1929, Page 6

A STOWAWAY.

GIVEN A CHANCE TO PAY FINE.

[THE F&ESS Special Berries.]

DUNEDIN. July 10. A stowaway arrived at Port Chalmers this morning from Port Kembla in the steamer Kaiwarra. When brought before Mr A. Cable, J.P., at theMagistrate's Court, he said that his name was William Phillips, and that he belonged to Dunedin, where he had worked before going to Australia. Ha-r----ing been out of work for some time he thought he would have a better chance of obtaining employment if he returned to his own country. He had offered to work in the ship, but the captain would not permit it. Nevertheless he had done a little to help the ship's "peggy.'» He pleaded guilty to the charge of travelling in the steamer without obtaining permission to do so. and to a further charge of not payinjj his fare, which was £6 10s secondclass. Captain Stewart, master of the Kaiwarra. said that the ship sailed from Port Kembla at 10 p.m. on July 4tb, and the following morning, when she was 100 miles from land, the accused came out of the bunkers. He offered to work, but that was not permitted, for if stowaways were allowed to work their passage the ship would be full of them every trip and they would become a nuisance. The Bench decided that on the first charge the accused should be convicted and discharged. On the second charge he was convicted and fined the amount of the fare, in default one week's imprisonment. As the accused had impressed the Bench as a likely man to obtain work, he was allowed 24 hours in which to pay the fine.