TWO STOWAWAYS
DEALT WITH LENIENTLY
Dominion Special.
Auckland, October 27
Unable to secure work in Australia, two young labourers decided to try their hick in New Zealand, and to minimise expenses they chose a recess in the stokehold of the steamer Marama as their travelling quarters. When the steamer was two days out from Sydney, however, they were discovered, and to-day they were charged in the Magistrate’s Court with stowing away on the steamer. “I have trekked over the Blue Mountains in search of work,” said one of the men.
They were convicted and ordered to come up for sentence in three months time. “Tf you pay your fares nothing more- will be heard about this,” said the Magistrate,
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 28, 28 October 1926, Page 10
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