STOWAWAYS ON AWATEA
YOUNG MARRIED (O' I’l.E. | DETAINED AT SYDNEY. Received June 12. 10.5 p.m. SYDNEY, June 19. Penniless, and with their worldly possessions in a brown paper hag, a young married couple stowed away at Wellington on the Awatea and announced their presence to Captain Davey late the lirst night out. They claim to be Australians, but as they are unable to furnish the immigration authorities with conclusive proof, they I have been detained aboard the liner. I The husband said they went to Wellington a few months ago and he I secured a job as a motor driver, but. I the climate beat him. He expected I money from Australia, but it did not arrive. When he left his job they • were faced with starvation, so they stowed away. The passengers subscribed £6, which will go towards the wife’s fare.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 143, 20 June 1939, Page 7
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