“BLACK SHEEP.”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5097, 7 March 1927, Page 2

“BLACK SHEEP.”

BA RUN AS STEWARD. A LIFE OF CHICANERY. Travellers from New Zealand arriving in Sydney brought, tales of a British baronet said to have been employed on a trans-Pacific liner as steward. The tales are not flattering. According to a conservative Sydney resident who arrived by one of the Union Company’s steamers, the baronetsteward is the “black sheep” off a well-known family of British business • people. The late baronet, his father, who teceived t,he title for certain financial benefactions, is said to have been so dissatisfied with his son’s attitude tor wards life that when he died he left him nothing but the title. This reduced the s°n to the necessity of earning his own living, and he is alleged to have entered upon a life of chicanery, which in Australia would be described as that of a “magsman.”

The young baronet, who is not so ye,ung that he should not by this time have learned the error of his ways, is said to be now engaged in exploiting New Zealand, having reaped a satisfactory harvest on his Pacific trips, and is understood to have the intention of visiting Australia when the Dominion has decided that it can- doj withenit him.

A description of the baropet-stew- • ard has been furnished to .the Sydney police by some of the overseas travellers who have had dealings with him.