PROSPECTIVE STOWAWAY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22101, 3 November 1933, Page 10

PROSPECTIVE STOWAWAY

AUCKLAND HIS OBJECTIVE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, September 21. A man who had told the police that it was his intention to stow away to New Zealand at the earliest opportunity appeared at the Borough Police Court, Birkenhead. He was Sydney Ernest Williams, of no stated address. A constable said that he was on the grain quay on the north side of the East Float dock, when he saw Williams walking along towards a steamer. Witness questioned him, and W’illiams replied: “1 am going aboard a ship to have a sleep, and if I don’t get aboard the ship I am going to break in somewhere and acquire something.” He was taken to the brideWilliams told the Bench he had been all over the country during the past four years, and the only thing for him to do was to get back to Auckland. “If it takes me five to 10 years I am going to get out there,” he declared. Chief Inspector T. Morris said that in 1923 Williams stowed away to New Zealand, married, and remained there until 1927. He had been tramping from town to town and sleeping out, and it was his intention to stow away at the first possible opportunity. He was a native of Rock Ferry and had -five previous conairman (Alderman E. G. Mason): If we discharge you, will you leave the town? „ , Williams: I will leave within 24 hours. TEe magistrates discharged him.