THREE STOWAWAYS.
RETURNED TO NEW ZEALAND
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 8. When three seamen, Arthur Rowland Barrett, aged 25, Roy Hogarth, aged 27, and Alphonse Bailleul, aged 28 admitted having stowed away on tho Mahana on March 23, and who were returned to New Zealand from Colon, counsel for the shipping company said that these cases were very expensive to the company—equivalent to the passage money in each case, which was £SO, so tho total cost to the company was £l5O. r * r !. “The company wishes it to be made clear,” he «>id, “in all these cases where stowaways' arc discovered on board its ships they will, irrespective of cost, be landed at the first port and returned to New. Zealand. There is thus little possibility of reaching the destination they desire.” Each was fined £5, in default seven days’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1928, Page 10
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142THREE STOWAWAYS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 136, 9 May 1928, Page 10
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