TWO MORE STOWAWAYS
MAGISTRATE IMPOSES FINES
"It is necessary that 'thj Court should inflict some punishment to act aa a deterrent to others who contemp'-te having a free trip from Australia to New ZeaIf i," remarked Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when sentencing Francis Patrick Cherry, a labourer, aged 20, and William David Quarringt' a carpenter, aged 23, on charges of stowing away on the Westmoreland from Brisbane to Wellington.
The accused, said Senior-Sergeant Ward, had gone to Queensland from England under an immigrant scheme. They had both worked in Queensland for a time, but latterly had been out of work, and had decided to toy New Zealand.
A representative of the shipping company said that the cos*; of keeping the men on the trip over was estimated at £2 each. The men had iven no trouble, and both appeared to be good types.
Statinp; that the shipping companies had had a god deal of trouble of late with stowaways, the Magistrate fined each accused "2, and ordered them to repa; to the shipping company the cost of theii' keep. Default was fixed at fourteen days' imprisonment in each case.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 10
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195TWO MORE STOWAWAYS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1930, Page 10
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