At a recent meeting of the Southampton Master Mariner’s Club a discussion took place on “ Stowaways,” an appropriate subject in view of the acuteness of the stowaway problem in the North Atlantic trade of late. Captain W. V. J. Clarke said that while a certain amount of romance still lingered in people’s minds over stowing away, it has become so prevalent that it was regarded with great seriousness. On account of the migration laws, owners were often compelled to keep stowaways on board in a foreign port and bring them back to the place where they stowed away. Captain Clarke said that it was a matter for congratulation that in Southampton, prison for four week’s hard labour was the maximum penalty, and this the magistrates usually ordered.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3958, 21 January 1930, Page 56
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