STOWAWAYS FINED
DETERRENT TO OTHERS MVr Prnsß ARRociation.) WELLINGTON, last night. “It is necessary that the court should inflict some punishment to act as a deterrent to others who contemplate having a free trip from Australia to New Zealand," remarked Mr. T. B. McNeil, S.M., in the Magistrate \s Cour to-day, when sentencing Francis Patrick Cherry, 20, a laborer, and William David Quarrington, 23, a carpenter, on charges of stowing away on the Westmoreland from Brisbane to Wellington. i Accused, said Senior-Sergeant Ward, 1 had gone to Queensland from England under the immigrant scheme. They had both worked in Queensland for a time, but latterly had been out of work, and had decided to try New Zealand. Stating that the shipping com-, panics had had a good deal of trouble of late with, stowaways, the magistrate fined each accused £2, and ordered them to repay the shipping coin- i pany the cost of their keep. De- 1 fault was fixed at 14 days’ imprisonment in each case.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 14
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