POPULAR SHIP: FIVE STOWAWAYS
AUCKLAND, August 5
Five men who were found by the police concealed in various parts of the steamer, 'James Cook, before her departure for Sydney yesterday afternoon. appeared before the Magistrate, Mr F. H. Levien, in the Police Court to-day. Sentence of one month’s imprisonment was passed on William Mason, aged 34, a labourer; Paul Bek, aged 28 a ship’s trimmer; and John Vincent Millett, aged 20, a labourer. Twelve months’ probation was allowed William James Woolsey, aged 19, a ship’s fireman, and William Fember Reeves, aged 24, a labourer. Later Reeves was handed over to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, which, the police said, had wanted him for four years. Woolsey’s father told the Magistrate that his son wanted to get away from his associates and make a fresh start in Australia.
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Grey River Argus, 6 August 1948, Page 8
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