POLITE CONVERSATION
STOWAWAYS REVEALED COMPLAINED OF “HOT CABINS” . “Our cabins are terribly oppressive,” said two presentable and welldressed Americans on board the Aorangi, when she was two days out from Vancouver. They were making polite conversation. “What are the numbers of your cabins?” someone asked casually,, to sustain the conversation. “It is, er—6o2,” replied the young men. A ship’s officer overheard the number and drew his own deductions, knowing that the cabin was that of the manicurist. The upshot of the affair was that the two confessed they had stowed away at Vancouver. They liavesince learnt a. most useful lesson in lying low. The ship carried five stowaways this trip, three having joined up at Honolulu. One, a Filipino, hid himself behind sacks of potatoes in the store, and reffiained in hiding for three days, but the other two were discovered the night they came on board. One of the tragedies of the voyage was that the black cat jumped overboard, leaving two motherless kittens to the care of the sorrowing crew.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 18
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172POLITE CONVERSATION Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 503, 5 November 1928, Page 18
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