MORE STOWAWAYS
BACK FROM NEW ZEALAND ELEVEN MEN SENT TO PRISON [FROM OTTO OWN CORRESPONDENT] LONDON". Aug. 5 Two Lancastrians, Arthur "Pasco, aged 37, of Salford, and Robert Wilkinson, aged 36, of Rawtenstall, were among 11 men arrested when the steamer Port Melbourne arrived at Southampton from New Zealand, toward the end of July. All the men were later charged with being stowaways and were each sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment. One of the men stated that conditions were very bad in New Zealand. "Wo were starving and wanted to get home," he said. This man said ho had been in New Zealand seven years and had been out of work for two years. Another man said: —"The majority of us have only had one moaJ a day for tho last four or five months. This was the enly way wo had of getting home. We worked on the ship during the voyage. Wo shifted 1400 tons of coal and we worked in tho engineroom, on deck, and elsewhere." Tho men said that thry mostly went on board in pairs and did not know about the others until they gavo themselves up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 11
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192MORE STOWAWAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 11
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