STOWAWAY FINED

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 11, 13 July 1932, Page 8

STOWAWAY FINED

RUSE TO BOARD FERRY

"This man has a very long list of convictions for all classes of offences/ 5 said Mr. E. ;Page/ 'S.M.V at" the' Magistrate's Court "to-day; wEen inflicting a fine of £5, in default one month's imprisonment, on William "fercival Old, alias Nixon, a labourer, aged 41, who stowed away on the Rangatira at Lyttelton • last night. • fcenior-Sergeant Dempsey said that the accused accompanied a frail woman down to the vessel when it was about to sail. He represented that the woman, and a Child who was with, her, were his wife and child, and that he wished to assist them. He was permitted.to board the vessel, but did. not-return to the shore. Ihere^is no question that the woman whom he represented to be his wife is not his wife," said the senior-sergeant. The accused, who pleaded guilty, told the Magistrate that he had been unable to get work m the South Island, and had shearing work to go to in the North Island. .