STOWAWAY TO BE DEPORTED

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 19 June 1933, Page 4

STOWAWAY TO BE DEPORTED

A OFFERS OF EMPLOYMENT. KEEN INTEREST AT AUCKLAND. (.By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 17. An extraordinary degree of sympathetic interest lias been aroused in Frit-iz Kreuzer, aged 21, who dived overboard from; the Mariposa last night, and who in the Rolice Court today, on charges of vagrancy and entering New Zealand without a permit, was ordered to be deported. Although it- .seems definite that Kreuzer will have to leave New Zealand, numbers of offers to employ him have been received. Negotiations to obtain his release on bond"'were instituted after the court proceedings, hut nothing definite ha® oeen done. The Austrian Trade Commissioner, Mr O. J. Thedens, who is ilso president of the German Club, has been taking an active part in the interest of Kreuker. Mr Thedens stated that up to £IOOO could be made available for a bond for the stowaway if such a sum were necessary. A farmer came from the country to the city and informed Air Thedens that he would have no hesitation in finding a position on his property for Kreuzer. Striking as that offer was it has been only one of numbers. The German Club through its connections is in a position, to point to several opportunities to employ the young man.