TWO STOWAWAYS
OFFENDERS BEFORE COURT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 2.
A labourer and a farm hand who appeared in the Magistrate's Court last week on a charge of stowing away on the Wanganella at Sydney on May 21, came before Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., for sentence today.
Senior-Sergeant Flanagan said one of the accused, Charles Thomas Cross, labourer, aged 27, came to New Zealand to look for work. He had heard there was plenty of work in New Zealand,,but as he could not obtain money to come here he took a chance in stowing away and was satisfied to take the consequences. The other accused, George Dudley Bernard Burns, farmhand, aged 18, had been under the Child Welfare Department, and Mr. Flanagan recommended his return to the Department. : Cross-was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment and Burns was placed underittie control of the Child Welfare Departjrnent^ <£ .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 20
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