ESCAPE FROM LINER
INCIDENT IN SYDNEY YOUNG AMERICAN SCIENTIST A young American who figured last week in a sensational incident in Sydney returned to Auckland by the Aorangi yesterday. He was Mr. William Orr, formerly junior meteorologist to the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, who, declared to bo a prohibited immigrant in Sydney, climbed through a porthole on the liner and saw the eights of tliei city for two days before rejoining the vessel.
Mr. Orr had only a short stay in the Antarctic, as he fell down a hatch on the Jacob liuppert and suffered a fractured thigh. He .camo back to New Zealand, but before returning to America decided he would like to seek work i;a Australia. Owing to passport informalit.es ho was prohibited from landing; at Sydney and was ordered to remain on board the Aorangi. However, he managed to elude the vigilance of the wharf authorities after his escape through the porthole, and, although he was being searched for in Sydney, spent two days ashore, just before the liner sailed he called at the company's office and explained tho position. The company accordingly made arrangements for his renui-n to New Zealand.
Mr. Orr left the Aorangi at Auckland yesterday. His plans for the future, he said, were indefinite.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21742, 6 March 1934, Page 10
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