STOWAWAYS FROM SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20482, 6 February 1930, Page 14

STOWAWAYS FROM SYDNEY.

TWO MEN ON ULIMAROA.

HASTINGS RESIDENT'S EXCUSE

[hy telegraph.—own correspondent.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

Almost every ship which has arrived in New Zealand from Australia recently has brought its quota of stowaways, and tho Ulimaroa which reached Wellington from Sydney yesterday was no exception, two men being arrested on board the ship. Lack of work in Australia is the usual oxcuse advanced by tho stowaways, and this was tho explanation offered by Ronald Collins, a labourer, aged 21, in the Magistrate's Court to-day.

When ho was arrested Collins told tho constable that ho had boon out of work for tho past six months, having walked all over New South Wales and Victoria without result. Ho gave himsolf up to tho captain when tho ship was two days out.

Tho case of tho other man, James Sharpo, a storeman, aged 36, was somewhat, different. 110 was represented by counsel, who said he was a very wellknown business man in. Hastings. Ho had had a considerable amount of worry recently, and in order to recuperate his health had gone to Sydney for a holiday, paying his faro over. While in Sydney Sharpo had run out of cash. Ho had cabled for more money, but as this did not arrive when ho expected it, and being anxious to return to New Zealand, ho had taken a chance of stowing away. There could be no doubt, said counsel, that Sharpo could get the money to pay his fare, and also any fine which might bo imposed if ho were given a little time to get, in touch with relatives. Each man was fined £1 and orderod to pay the second class faro, £6 10s. _ Dofault was fixed at seven days' imprisonment in each case.