THREE STOWAWAYS IMPRISONED
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 14. Three men who tried to stow away on the motor-ship Kurow for Australia yesterday were brought before Mr J. Morling, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today. They were Walter Thomas Heller, aged 3b, a seaman; John Thomas Pickering, aged 35, a carpenter; and Arthur Joseph Coleman, aged 34, a photographer. The police said that Pickering, when arrested, said he wanted to go to his wife and three children in Mildura, Australia. Heller had a wife and two children in Christchurch, but was separated from his wife. Coleman arrived in New Zealand in 1940 as a stowaway, and hesitated to apply for a permit to return to Australia. Sentencing each to one week’s imprisonment, the Magistrate said that the men knew what the penalty wpuld be.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 3
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