FIVE STOWAWAYS ON SHIP
.APPEARANCE IN COURT (P.A.) AUCKLAND, August 5. Five men found by the police concealed in various parts of the steamer James Ccok before her departure for Sydney yesterday afternoon, appeared before Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Sentence of one month’s imprisonment was , passed on William Mason, aged 34, labourer, Paul Bek, aged 28, ship’s trimmer, and John Vincent Millett, aged 20, labourer. Twelve months’ probation was allowed William James Woolsey, aged 19, ship’s fireman, and William Pember Reeves, aged 24, labourer. Later Reeves was handed over to the Royal New Zealand Air Force which, the police said, had wanted him for four years. Woolsey’s father told the Magistrate that his son wanted to get away from associates and make a fresh start, in Australia.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25566, 6 August 1948, Page 3
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