Boy Stowaway Who Feared Operation
Received Tuesday, 10.50 p.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 13. A 15-year-old boy, Arthur James Dance, of Kilbirnie, Wellington, who stowed away when the American ship, Cape Friendship, was at Wellington was taken ashore by immigration officers when the ship berthed at Melbourne. The police said today that the boy stowed away because he feared an impending nose and throat operation. He was trying to reach relatives in Tasmania. He will be returned to New Zealand. He was discovered 13 hours after the ship left Wellington, when thirst forced him from his hiding-place in the engine room. During the voyage he worked as a galley boy.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 269, 14 November 1945, Page 7
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