Stowed Away in Order to Get Home
Received Mondav, JS.3 5 ii.m. HYDNEY, Fel). 10. A voung stowaway is tocked up on the Xcw Zealand rthipping ( Timpany 's st eamer Kaipara which arrived at Eydney f'roin Newfoiindlaiid today, vliile tlic aut lioril ies are deciding what to do with liini. The stowaway is Ian .Middleton, aged IS), and he is anxious to get home to his parents in Auckland aftei being at sea three years. After seeing Uiost paris oi' the world- as a sailor. .Middleton lel't a ship on the Great Lales of Canada* and went 1o St. .Tohn intending to sign on a ship in . the orthodox nianner but the cold beat liim. ''The snow was three feet dee]) and 1 couldn't stand it any longer, " he said. Jle added flint he boarded 1h,e Kaipara I :ind liid in the after peak for 41 daysl living on Ihe food he had laken with I liini. At the end of tliat timo he gave' liiniself up. ' , j
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 February 1948, Page 5
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