THREE STOWAWAYS.
CASES TOO PLENTIFUL. COMMENT BY SHIP’S CAPTAIN. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. “This kind of thing is getting too prevalent and is nothing but a worry to shipowners and crews,” said Captain James Watson, master of the Waikouaiti, in the Magistrate’s Court when James Alexander Kelly, confectioner, aged 33, Raymond Bernard < Orrell, labourer, aged .26, and James Watson, labourer, aged 19, were charged with stowing away on the Waikouaiti at Newcastle. Each of the accused was convicted, fined £5 and ordered to pay the amount of the fare, £7 10s, in default one month’s imprisonment. Captain Watson told Mr Page, S.M. ’that after the vessel had left Sydney he had to return to port to land another stowaway. It was after* the boat had cleared the heads again that the three accused were found. “We are always searching the ship for them, but we are living on a volcano the whole time,” said Captain Watson. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that accused had been out of work in Australia and had come to New Zealand in the hope of finding emloyment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 223, 16 August 1930, Page 9
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182THREE STOWAWAYS. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 223, 16 August 1930, Page 9
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