CHEEKY AND ABUSIVE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19979, 3 July 1939, Page 4

CHEEKY AND ABUSIVE

STOWAWAYS’ ATTITUDE TRANS - T ASM A N VESSELS COMPLAINT BY MASTER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The cheeky and abusive manner being adopted by some of the stowaways, who Wave 'been found in the trans-Tasman liner Awatea in recent weeks, was mentioned on Saturday by the master, Captain Davey. Three were discovered, he said, just after the liner left the 'wharf at Sydney last week, and one of them had said when he was being sent ashore that he would “pick u(p” a ship on the next voyage.

In her last three crossings, said Captain Davey, nine men had boarded the ship with the intention of stowing away. Three were found on the last voyage from Wellington to Sydney and were sentenced after being taken ashore to 23 days’ imprisonment. On the crossing back to Auckland the liner had just left the quay when the purser reported the discovery’ of a stowaway to Captain Davey. Since the ship had to stop momentarily at Rose Bay to take on air mails for New Zealand, Captain Davey ordered the man to toe sent ashore toy the mail launch.

Between the time the first man was found and the time the mail launch drew -alongside, the purser had a search m'aae of the ship and two more men were found. The three of them were put .into the latmch.

One of the men was most abusive to the purser, said Captain Davey, and it had also been noticeable for some time that the men- stowing away were becoming increasingly cheeky. It did not matter to them that they were putting the ships and their officers to great inconvenience and trouble.

Captain Davey also mentioned that the Wanganella, which recently left Auckland for Sydney, took two stowaways across the Tasman. Every ship making the crossing, he said, was being troubled by these men.