STOWAWAYS CHARGED

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 257, 27 July 1936, Page 2

STOWAWAYS CHARGED

Five Aboard Monterey

YOUNG WOMAN CONVICTED

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Auckland, July 25.

Five stowaways were discovered on the Monterey after she left Sydney for Auckland, where she arrived this morning. One was a young woman who is stated to have been found among the passengers. Two men were prohibited immigrants and are being taken to California.

Eileen Mary Healy, waitress, aged 19. pleaded guilty to stowing away at Sydney on July 22 and lauding in New Zealand without a permit. The police said she found a cabin passenger with whom she became friendly but thereafter she was treated as n stowaway. In a statement, the girl said her parents resided at Footseray, Melbourne. She had been in Sydney for four years and wanted to leave Australia for no particular reason, and stowed away. Counsel for the shipping company asked that she be detained and placed on board the Mariposa, which leaves for Sydney on August 7. He added that stowing away was becoming quite an epidemic. The magistrate adjourned the first charge to August 7 on condition that the girl remained in the Salvation Army home. On the second charge she was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence.

“This is a man who remained for five days without food after secreting himself in the rope locker of the Golden State,” said Sub-Inspector Fox, referring to Mervyn Ainslie Brown, labourer, aged 21, who pleaded guilty to stowing away on the Golden State at Wellington on July 4. Brown said that on his arrival at Melbourne he was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, and he did not. see now why he should lie brought up again on the same charge. The sub-inspector said that the Melbourne sentence was for illegally landing in Australia, not for stowing away, and added that the accused for taking part in a riot in 1932 was sentenced to three years in Boistal, but was released after serving a portion of the sentence. Remarking that he did not intend to punish Brown again, the magistrate, Mr. Hunt, at the request of the police, remanded him till July 31 to enable further inquiries to be made. Lionel Arthur Collins, watchmaker, 28, a native of New Zealand, pleaded guilty. The police said he was noc a prohibited immigrant. On June 12 he stowed away from Auckland to Sydney on the Mariposa without being detected. Later lie became destitute at Sydney and stowed away on the Monterey. Accused was fined the amount of his fare, £lO, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. Replying to a request by accused for time to pay, the magistrate refused, adding that it was not a time-payment matter.