WANGANELLA STOWAWAYS
TWO MEN REMANDED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 26. Pleas of guilty to stowing away on the Wanganella at Sydney were entered in the Police Court by Charles Thomas Cross, aged 27, and George Dudley Burns, aged 18. The police said that the men went aboard separately. Cross came from Queensland, and hoped to find employment in New Zealand. Burns left a training farm in, New Zealand and managed to get to Australia as a stowaway. Apparently he was still under the care of the Child Welfare Department. Both were remanded for a week pending inquiries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23201, 27 May 1937, Page 7
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