TALES BY STOWAWAYS.
WOMEN & CHILDREN STARVING IN AUSTRALIA. SENTENCES IN AN ENGLISH COURT. LONDON, November 3. Eight mon were sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment each at Eastham jfor stowing away on the Mamilius from Wellington. The prosecutor said that he understood that the next ShawSavill ship from New Zealand had twenty-five stowaways aboard. One defendant told a remarkable story of unemployment in Australia. Women and children were starving, and men were picked up helpless on the roadside. The chairman of the Bench warned him that work was as difficult to get in England as in the Dominions.
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Wairarapa Age, 5 November 1930, Page 5
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