“BREAK” FOR STOWAWAY
REUNITED WITH WIFE SECURED PASSAGE ON SHIP Off to America aboard the 16,552ton liner John Ericson, Mrs Kingsley Foster and her baby daughter, Lesley, looked out from a porthole to where former G. I. Kingsley Foster stood watching on the rainswept dockside at Southampton. Mr Foster left America recently —as a stowaway in the Queen Elizabeth—in' order to see them. For days he had tried to get a passage back to the U.S. But every ship was full. So on the day the John Ericson sailed he accompanied his wife and daughter to the liner, watched them go on board, and then waited to say good-bye. And then, just before the liner sailed, he was told he could go aboard—and stay.
| For while he had been waiting news came that a passenger would not be sailing. Mr Graham Ackerley, local agent of the United States Lines, phoned London and mentioned Foster. As his fare hdd been deposited there, he was allowed to travel in the John Ericson. Reunited with his wife, Mr Foster said:" "A swell break. I don't know whom I. have to thank for it, but I'm very grateful."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 2
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194“BREAK” FOR STOWAWAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 2
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