STOWAWAYS PROSECUTED

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 July 1936, Page 4

STOWAWAYS PROSECUTED

AUSTRALIAN GIRL’S VOYAGE. ( [FEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, July 25. Three stowaways appeared before Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning. Eileen Mary Healy, a waitress, aged 19, pleaded guilty to stowiug away at Sydney on July 22, and with landing in New Zealand without a permit. The police said that the accused had been found in the cabin of a passenger with whom she had become friendly. Thereafter she had been treated as a stowaway. In a statement, the girl said that her parents resided at Footscray, Melbourne, She had been in Sydney lor four years, and wanted to leave Australia for no particular reason. Counsel for the shipping company asked that she be detained and placed aboard the Mariposa, leaving for Sydney on August 7. He added that stowing away was becoming quite common.

' The magistrate adjourned the first , charge till August 7, on condition that tho girl remained in the Salvation Army Home. On the second charge, ho convicted her and ordered her to come up for sentence. “This is the man who remained five days without food after secreting himself in the rope locker of the Golden State,” said Sub-Inspector Fox, referring to Mervyn Ainslie Brown, a labourer, aged 21, who pleaded guilty to stowing away on the Golden State at Wellington on July 4. Brown said that, on arrival at Melbourne he had been sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment, and did not see why he should be brought up again on the same charge. The sub-inspector said that the Melbourne sentence was for illegally landing in Australia, and not for stowing away. He added that the accused, for taking part in the riot of 1932, was sentenced to three years’ detention in the Borstal, but was released after serving a portion of the sentence. Remarking that he did not intend to punish Brown again, the Magistrate, at the police request, remanded him till July 31, to cuablc further enquiries to be made. , Lionel Arthur Collins, a watch* maker, aged 28, a native of New Zea-

land, pleaded guilty. The police said’ that on June 12 the accused stowed away from Auckland to Sydney on the Mariposa without being detected. Later he became destitute in Sydney, and stowed away on the Monterey. The Magistrate lined the accused the amount of the fare, £lO, or in default 14 days’ imprisonment. 1 Replying to a request for time to pay, ths Magistrate refused, adding that it was not a “time for payment” matter.