STOWAWAY CHARGED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. March 25. A stowaway who boarded the liner Dominion Monarch at Sydney, Edward Michael Carroll, appeared before the Magistrate. Mr E. Stilwell. The serious nature of the offence was stressed on behalf of the company. It was said that there were occasions when a ship had put hack some distance, also when a ship on the wav Home had put into such a port as Gisborne to discharge a stowaway. It only needed a stowaway to he a prohibited immigrant and it would he seen how awkward it could lie on landing at the ship’s destination. The police said they were unable to say whether accused was a prohibited immigrant. Mr Stillwell : I have no power to deport him unless he is. A remand was granted lo enable the police to look into accused's antecedents.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 98, 25 March 1939, Page 9
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