UNABLE TO LAND
STOWAWAYS ON PARRACOMBE To stowaway on a steamer and travel 14,000 miles, visiting throe countries, without being able to land was the unenviable experience of two young men. The vessel is the Parracombe, which arrived at Dunedin yesterday. The stowaways boarded the steamer at Huelba (Spain) in June and remained hidden under the stokehold floor until the vessel was about 300 miles from the port. From Huelba the Parracombe took iron ore to Philadelphia, and from there she went to Liverpool (Nova Scotia) to load her present cargo of paper for New Zealand. . One of the stowaways js twenty-three years of age and is a native of Poland, while the other was born in Czechoslovakia and is thirty-three years old. Being aliens, they were not allowed to land at Philadelphia or Liverpool, and they cannot be left in New. Zealand. Whatever country the Parracombe visits the reception of the two stowaways will be the same. Even if the vessel returned to Spain, it is doubtful if the two men would be allowed to land there, because they are not Spaniards. One of the stowaways, the younger man, is suffering from tuberculosis, and ho has been admitted to the Auckland Hospital. He will probably be deported, however, as soon as he is sufficiently recovered.
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Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 12
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216UNABLE TO LAND Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 12
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