YOUNG N.Z. STOWAWAY
ARRIVAL IN MELBOURNE Melbourne Nov. 13. A 15-year old boy, Arthur James Dance, of Kilbirnie, Wellington, who stowed away when an American ship, the Cape Friendshin, was at Wellington, was taken ashore by Immigration officers when the ship berthed at Melbourne. The police said to-day that the boy stowed away because be feared an impending nose and throat operation. He was trying to reach relatives in Tasmania. He will bo returned to New Zealand. was discovered 13 hours after the shin loft Wellington, when thirst forced him from his hiding place in the engine-room. During the voyage he worked as a galley boy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 4
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