ALLOWED TO LAND
Youth's Quest for Parents In Australia • (Received 28, 30:30 a.m.) ' . . , SYDNEY, ,A.ug. 27. William , Parkinson, aged 19, ' who travelled in the MaTaxna from Wellington . to Sydney, lias been granted exemption by tbe Custojns autborities to land in Australia for a month*. The :Rev." A. R. Ebbs offiered .to take the- youth to his farm for unenfplqyed youths, and Parkiiisonr* was ■ -handed over to the care of Mr Ebbs. - . According to a previous ' Sydney message, Parkinson was not alloWed to leave tlie Marama, because he did not know his real name and could not find lii's foster -parents. Parkinson said he had been to a dance iu Wellington, and decided to sleep on the Marama. He weut on board, and was " sbon' fast asleep, awakening next morning,"to find, the vessel at sea. Parkinson said that he had* foster , pa repts in Sydney. He claimed .Sydney as his ■ birthplace," and that he was adopted ' by people named Parkinson as - a ba!by. ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 190, 28 August 1937, Page 6
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