Stowaways Fined

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 1

Stowaways Fined

FROM CAPE COLVILLE “IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE LIVING” If the evidence of two men who have just returned from there is to be believed the relief works at Cape Colville are not the place where fortunes are to be made. They arrived in Auckland by the steamer Hauiti yesterday with only 8d between them. It was the fact that Leslie Knock, aged 26, John Holms, 47, journeyed from Colville to Auckland without paying their fares that landed them in trouble, and incidentally the dock at the Police Court this morning. They told the court that it was impossible to make a living on the relief works down there. It cost them 25s a week each for their “tucker,” and at the end of a fortnight’s work one had 4s 6d and the other 6s to call his own. Not having sufficient to pay their fares back to Auckland they stowed away on the Hauiti. Holms, who comes from the West Indies, was a “frequent visitor” to the court, it was said. In consequence he was not allowed time to pay the £1 fine that Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., imposed. If he cannot find the money an alternative of three days in gaol will be his. Knock was fined a similar amount, but given till Monday to find the money.