YOUTH’S SEA CRAVING
STOWAWAY'S ADVENTURES A youth who had made practically • world tour as a stowaway was sentenced at Liverpool in January to four weeks’ imprisonment for stowing away on tho steamer Rock pool from Barry Dock, South Wales, to Madagascar. Be was Alfred John Little, aegd 20, of Liverpool, and in pleading guilty ho said: “1 was nearly mad looking for work, and 1 thought if I stowed away on this ship on such a long voyage one of the crew might go ill and I would get his job.” Prosecuting counsel said that Little was in the ship over four months, and travelled almost round the world before being landed at Liverpool. Tho probation officer stated that the youth had boon on probation for stowing away on previous occasions. Ho had no father, and had a great longing Io go to sea.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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