IN DANCE FROCKS
STOWAWAYS ON STEAMER, TO EUROPE AND BACK. Two St. John’s (Newfoundland) girls recently left Liverpool on the way home irom a dance to which they went in St. John’s on December 6 last year. Their route from the dance hall to their homes in the same town has led them all round Europe. The grits, Emilia Mitchell and Mary McCarthy, both aged eighteen, went down to the quay alter their Saturday night dance, and, in a spirit of adventure, thought they would climb on a steamer lying there. The vessel, however, was on the point of sailing. Sudden activity caused them to hide, and before the girls, shivering in their flimsy frocks, realised it, they were out on the Atlantic heading for Europe. The girls kept in hiding, but, two days later, they were found, and put to work as stowaways, cleaning brass and doing other odd jobs. The ship called at various European ports, and reached Hull recently. A deporation order was. obtained against them, and they were escorted, by officials to Liverpool, where they have be gun the last stage of their trip home.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 2
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189IN DANCE FROCKS Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1931, Page 2
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