WANTED A TRIP
AUCKLAND BOY'S ESCAPADE. PRESS ASSOCIATION. . AUCKLAND, August *. As the result of a statement published relating to the disappearance from Upper Union street on Tuesday of the schoolboy David Smith, a railway employee called on the parents last night with the infermation that he had seen the boy on • scow, which' had departed up the river on Tuesday. The parents lost no time this morning in • following up the cine, and they had great ~ relief, on getting to Birkenhead just alter the berthing of the scow C.enae, of finding their son aboard apparently enjoying him* se f. It appears that the youngster was seized with a desire for a trip on the water on Tuesday, and wandered down to the scow. Ho there told the master a fairy story about his mother being dead and bis father indifferent to his movements so long as he reported himself once a week. The master believed tne story, and allowed the lad to take a tr p on the scow with him to 'he up-river brickwork*. ,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 1
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