GAOL FOR STOWAWAYS
gave themselves up day AFTER VESSEL SAILED WANTED TO WORK IN N.Z. ( Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, June 20. Sentences of 14 days’ imprisonment were imposed by Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., on John Edward William. Lamb, aged 37, tobacco-worker, and John Angus Patterson, aged 31, labourei. both Australians, who pleaded guilty to stowing away on lhe Zealandic on its passage from Melbourne to New Plymouth. The men gave themselves up to the boatswain at 7.15 a.m. the day after the vessel left and offered to work but were not allowed to. The men stated in Court that as a result of the Victorian bush fires they were unable to obtain work and thought they would try New Zealand.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 12
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