STRANDED IN N.Z.
Stowaway on Collier Because he was stranded and starving in New Zealand, a young English seaman. William Martin, stowed away'on the steamer Gabriella, which arrived at Sydney recently from Greymouth. Martin said that bis wife and family lived in Port Pirle (South Australia). He took a job on the steamer Port Darwin and went to London, where he was transferred to the Port Gisborne, which came to New Zealand on her last trip. Jn New- Zealand, however, he missed the ship, and was left, almost penniless. “I could not get work or another ship, and I was absolutely. destitute,” be said in Sydney. “Hungry and desperate, I crept on board the Gabriella at Greymouth and hid in the coal bunkers. A day out, I gave myself up to the officers.'’ .Martin was allowed to land, but still had to solve the problem of getting back to his wife and family at Port Pirie.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 7
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156STRANDED IN N.Z. Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 7
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