GIRL STOWAWAY

Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1933, Page 5

GIRL STOWAWAY

DISCOVERY ON THE TEES

CHRISTCHURCH, April 17

The story of how a 19-year-old Auckland girl overcame efforts to prevent her from going to the Chatham Islands with a married man, by hiding on tlic steamer Tees was related in the Police Court this morning. Tho girl was arrested on the arrival of tile steamer at the Chatham® and was i charged this morning, before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., with' being idle and disorderly. iShe promised t 0 .return to Auckland with her mother, and the case was adjourned for a week. Senior-Serennt Fox said that the accused was the only child of well-to-do people in Auckland. 'She had had a college education and up till recently was quite respectable. For about two years she kept company with a respectable young man, but then a married man crossed her path. She became infatuated with him, and in the following weeks her behaviour was not of the best. She was leading a fast life with motor-car rides, parties and so on.

The man w e ,nt to Auckland, where he visaed the girl’s parents and posed ■°e single. The girl’s parents warned her, but she did not take heed, added the senior-sergeant. The man obtained work at the Chatham Islands and proposed taking the girl with him. Befor e the steamer Tees sailed she wag interviewed and promised not to go to the Chatham Islands. Then followed a conspiracy and slip was hidden on tlie vessel. When the girl was found to be missing the parents communicated with the police, -and on the arrival of the Tees at the Chat hams she-' was unrested.

The gild’s mother came from Auckland and persuaded her daughter to ■return with her to Auckland. The girl had evidently learned the error of her ways.

Senior-Sergeant Fox asked for the ■adjournment o-f the case for a week and suggested that ,at th p end of that time t.h e 'charge might be withdrawn. The girl promised to return with her mother and th e Magistrate adjourned the ease for a week and suppressed the girl’s name.