NOT WANTED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20503, 22 August 1936, Page 8

NOT WANTED

STOWAWAYS BEFORE COURT By telegraph Pi ess AssociatioD WELLINGTON, August 21. Charged with unlawfully landing in New Zealand, being prohibited immigrants, and with stowing away on *he steamer Kaiwarra at Sydney on August 13, James Charles Waters, a hairdresser, aged 25, and Robert Grainger, a seaman, aged 45, appeared before Mr E. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Both pleaded guilty. Mr A. Paul, for the Customs Department, said that the two were stowaways on the Kaiwarra which arri in port this morning. Waters was : Australian by birth, and Grainger *. s an Englishman. They were destituta nd stowed away in order to look or work in New Zealand. “It is unfortunate for them,” said Mr Paul, “but if they are allowed to stay here Shey may become a charge on the community. Arrangements could be made to send them back, possibly by the Wanganella next week.” “Unifortunately for both of you, ha law is quite definite on this point,” said the Magistrate. “The only thing the Court can do is to send you back/

An order for deportation was mads, and a direction given that they be held in custody until then.

Prosecuting on a second charge SubInspector Roach said the men stowed away in the coal bunkers at Newcastle. They went ashore at Sydney, but returned and stowed away again before the ship sailed for Wellington. The accused were convicted of stowing away and were discharged.