STOWAWAYS
IMMIGRANTS WHO FAILED. DISMAL STORY TOLD. LONDON, May 8. Charged at the Hull Police Court with concealing themselves as stowaways in the steamship Cambridge from Fremantle, John Taylor, Henry Walter Prugeman, and James Donovan told, the magistrates that they were disillusioned with Australia, anci decided to tramp the coast and obtain a passage homo. They said that they were exservice men, and they could not live out there on the money they received. They alleged that they were paid 10s a week with food, and worked alongside men receiving four guineas a week. These “throw gibes” at .them. They also, alleged that their hours were from 5 o’clock in the morning till late at night. - The ship’s chief officer stated that one stowaway escaped on arrival at Hull. The three men charged were not ex-service men. One of the .defendants interjected: We ard. The chief officer added that the men had worked their passage and earned £lO, which was the cost of their keep. Each was fined two guineas or 28 days’ imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18861, 14 May 1923, Page 10
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174STOWAWAYS Otago Daily Times, Issue 18861, 14 May 1923, Page 10
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