IN DANCE FROCKS.
STOWAWAYS ON STEAMER. TO EUROPE AND BACK. Two St. John’s (Newfoundland) girls recently left Liverpool on the way home from a dance to which they went in St. John’s on December 6 last year. Their route from the dance hall to their homes in the same town has led them all round Europe. The girls (Emma Mitchell and Mary McCarthy, both aged 18) went down to the quay after their Saturday night dance, and in a spirit of adventure thought they would climb on a steamer lying there.
The vessel, however, was on the point of sailing. Sudden activity caused them to hide, and before the girls, shivering in their flimsy frocks, realised it they were out on the Atlantic heading for Europe. The girls kept in hiding, but two days later they were found, and put to work as stowaways, cleaning brass and doing other odd jobs. The ship called at various European ports, and reached Hull recently. A deportation order was obtained against them, and they were escorted by officials to Liverpool, where they have begun the last stage of their trip home.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18404, 11 August 1931, Page 5
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188IN DANCE FROCKS. Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18404, 11 August 1931, Page 5
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