STOWED AWAY ON LINER
YOUNG MEN'S ESCAPADE
ADMITTED TO PROBATION
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AUCKLAND, this day. A story of stowing away on the liner Monterey was told in the Police Court to-day by Neil Alfred Scastrand, aged 22, and Cynne Lindsay Oscar Johnson, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to boarding the Matson liner at Auckland on July 8.
The police said the two men gave themselves up the following day to the Chief Officer who placed them in the ship's cells where they renamed [or the remainder of the round trip to Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland "These men caused a good deal oi trouble on the ship," said Sub-Inspec-tor Flanagan. "Each damaged a fire alarm to the extent of £4, while the company had to engage a watchman to see they did not escape. The cost of the fare in each case was ;C2G. "We were kept in the brig all the time and had nothing except bread and water," said Scastrand. We never had a wash the whole time we were aboard. There were no conveniences for us. It was awful." The magistrate: You are not likely to stow away again, I take it? Scastrand: No, sir. Not if 1 were paid. I lost over a stone in weight. The magistrate admitted both men to probation for six months and ordered them to pay £l3 expenses.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 7
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