AWATEA STOWAWAYS
TWO GIVEN PROBATION By Telegraph.—Press Association) WE L LIN GTON, Fri da y Maurice Patrick Morrinan. aged 26. and John Crate, aged 24. stowaways on the Awatea. were to-day placed on probation for six months and ordered to pay their fares. Counsel said that Marrinan had served as a member of the Palestine Police ‘Force between 1933 and 1935, after which he took on professional boxing in England and Australia until his health broke down. Crate, an engineer, met Marrinan in Sydney. They hid friends in Wellington and work was waiting for They , wore willing to pay Lheir fare*.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 11
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101AWATEA STOWAWAYS Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20887, 19 August 1939, Page 11
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