£1400 FINE FOR BRINGING STOWAWAYS
SYDNEY, March 28. In the first proseeution of its ldnd for 20 years Francis ,Booth, master of the motorship Yunnan, was today fined £1400 in a special Federal Court. His offCncc was that he brought into tlm port of Sydney 14 stowawayS who were prohibited immigrants. The prescribed penalt.y is £100 per stowaway. The prohibited immigrants were Chinese who had hiddon in the boats by night and mixed with the erew by day.
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Chronicle (Levin), 29 March 1947, Page 5
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