"DON'T SEND ME BACK"
GIRL STOWAWAY FOUND IN CABIN ON MARIPOSA Auckland, Tuesday. Marion Bell, aged 19 years, born in Yorkshire, whose parents reside in Belfast Street, Sydney, stowed away on the Mariposa, which arrived in Auckland to-day. She boarded the ship on Satnrday just before sailing time, and, finding room 501 in the cabin section unoccupied, slipped in unnoticed and hid under the bunk. Two and a-half hours later, when the vessel had passed Sydney Heads, she gave herself up to the stewards. "Do not send me back to Australia. I want to go to America," she pleaded again and again on her arrival in Auckland. The girl told a most unusual story to the police and customs officials who questioned her, and pleaded to be left alone. Her pleadings were without avaii, and she left the wharves in a motor-car, accompanied by an officia} of the law. When brought before Mr. W. R. McEean, S.M., to-day he said: "I am sorry for yQU, but it is all I can do." and fined her £10 or in default 21 days imprisonment.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 387, 23 November 1932, Page 5
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182"DON'T SEND ME BACK" Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 387, 23 November 1932, Page 5
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