BATH TUB SAILOR
EN ROUTE TO NEW ZEALAND JOB GUARANTEED FOR HIM (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, October 24. Among members of the crew of the 80-ton auxiliary yacht Morewa, which left Brisbane last Monday for New Zealand, was Bertil Hjelmstrom, aged 22, who in June last deserted the Swedish barque C. B. Pedersen in a bath tub while the barque was anchored off Stephens Island, Cape York Peninsula. ' Hjelmstrom has been guaranteed employment by a business man in Dunedin (Mr Webber). He was engaged as a member of the crew of the Morewa, which has been purchased by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr Ernest Davis). Captain Pierotti, marine superintendent of the Northern Steamship Company of New Zealand, who has come over to navigate the yacht to Auckland, said that immigration laws in New Zealand were not so stringent as in Australia, especially where seamen were concerned. If anyone undertook to find a seaman employment he was allowed to land. Hjelmstrom, who went to Brisbane from Sydney by car, said the more he saw of Australia the more he liked it.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 14
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