YOUNG WOMAN STOWS AWAY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21727, 9 March 1936, Page 19

YOUNG WOMAN STOWS AWAY

+ PARTLY HIDDEN IN DOG KENNEL PAYMENT OP FARE AVOIDS PROSECUTION (P * ,SS iSMCUTIO* TBUMftitU.) AUCKLAND., March -7. sciden in a vacant dog kennel on the dost deck, a young married woman vyM found travelling as a stowaway on, board the Mariposa shortly after the vessel left Sydney for Auckland, Where she arrived this morning. ■ The discovery of the stowaway gave one of the women passengers quite a fright The ship had just cleared the Sydney heads and the passenger whs strolling along the deck admiring the view when she saw a pair of dalijty shoes and silk-c.lad ankles Protruding from the door of thedogikehnei Jumping to the grim ,contusion that a passenger might, hive, violence, the woman hastened* to report her discovery. When the ship’s officers m-ived the legs were found to belong to a vcry-much-aljve. stowaway. ; v She was a young, Auckland .woman who had suffered misfortune in Sydney. She gave the name of her father in Auckland.and this was. communicated by wireless tp the local agents of the company. The father deposited the money for her cabin class fare with the agents, and she will not be prosecuted. Only a very small person could havo got into the dog kennel, which was subdivided in the middle, making its floor area about three feet . square, While its height was about the same. The door was no more than a foot square. ■ ■ ..