Only One Woman Beat Gatekeepers
(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) . SYDNEY, This Day. Only one woman got beyond the gate of the wharf in an attempt to stow away on the Monterey. She got aboard with her luggage yesterday afternoon, but was discovered in the vaccination queue. Several other brides without passages were caught at the wharf gate. Of 811 brides and children due to sail, only one failed to arrive. A special train, the “Perth Perambulator,” brought 305 wives and 131 babies to the ship. One husband, discharged from the Army, took a job as a steward 1 on the Monterey, and finds that his wife and child are allocated to the ship. Accommodation is comfortable, the nearest to overcrowding being six women and children in a 12-berth cabin. At Brisbane the Mariposa is taking aboard 833 brides and babies, and is due to Sail on Wednesday. The ship arrived there yesterday. More than 2500 wives, widows and fiancees of Australian ex-servicemen are awaiting passages in the United Kingdom, and so far‘only 100 berths have been made available this month.
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Northern Advocate, 18 February 1946, Page 4
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