Ngahere will sail today
NZPA-AAP Adelaide Two African stowaways who were refused refugee status by the Australian Government will leave Port Pirie, South Australia today aboard the Ngahere bound for Auckland. This results from the resolution of a dispute between the Ngahere’s crew and her Australian agent, Union-Bulkships, over allowance money which delayed the ship’s departure on Monday. An Immigration Department enforcement officer in Adelaide, Mr John Tonkin, said Andrew Mhando, aged 21, of Kenya, and Sudi Said, aged 15, of Tanzania, were to be returned to the Ngahere last evening. The department decided
on Thursday to move Mhando to the Port Augusta jail and Said to the Youth Remand Centre in Adelaide, as it appeared the dispute would delay the ship indefinitely.
Mr Tonkin said the two had been kept in the ship’s hospital, suitable for shortterm accommodation at the master’s discretion. Mhando and Said lost a Federal Court application on Tuesday to overturn the decision by the Minister of Immigration, Mr Hurford, not to grant them refugee status.
They stowed away in the Ngahere before she left Port Sudan last month after unloading food and aid equipment for Ethiopia’s famine victims.
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