HARDSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA.
STATEMENT BY STOWAWAYS. WORK SOUGHT IN DOMINION. [by telegraph.—press association.] CHItISTCHUECH. Wednesday. Two stowaways from Australia, Georgo Henry Wood and John Herbert Lyon, wero sentenced to imprisonment for a month at Lyttelton this morning. Asked- if they had anything to say, Wood said he had been in difficulties in Australia for tho past 13 months. Ho had ;i family to support, and had to endeavour to obtain work. Lyon stated that there were thousands of persons in Australia tramping the country and going into tho bush, who were practically without shoes and clothes and were starving. " Before letting myself go down to that," lie said, " I decided to give New Zealand a trial."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20678, 25 September 1930, Page 14
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116HARDSHIPS IN AUSTRALIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20678, 25 September 1930, Page 14
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