"SWELL BREAK" FOR G.I. STOWAWAY
Off to America aboard the 116,552ton liner John Ericson, Mrs. Kingsley Foster and her baby daughter Lesley looked out from a porthole to where 'former G.I. Kingsley .Foster stood watching on the rain-swept dockside at Southampton. Mr; Foster left America recently — as a stowaway in the Queen Elizabeth — in order to see them. For days he had tried to get a passage back to the United States. But every ship was full. So on the day the Jo'hn Ericson sailed he accompanied his wife and daughter to the linei', watched them go on board, and then waited to say good-bye. And then, just hefore the linei sailed, he was told he could go aboard —and stay. For while he had 'been waiting news came that a passenger would not be sailing, Mr. Graham Ackerley, local agent of the United States Lines, phoned Lpndon and mentioned Foster. .As his fare had been deposited there, he was allowed to travel in thq John Ericson. Reunited with his wife, Mr. Foster said : " A swell break. 'I do^n't know whom .I have to thank for it, .but I'm very grateful."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 2
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191"SWELL BREAK" FOR G.I. STOWAWAY Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 2
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