TRAMPED 500 MILES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 1

TRAMPED 500 MILES

STOWAWAYS’ ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND

GAOL AFTER WORK-HOUSE

To tramp more than 500 miles through England and, finally despairing of finding work, to stow away on the Papanui at Liverpool were some of the experiences of two New Zealanders who appeared in the Police Court this morning. THOMAS TANGE, alias Townsend, aged 22, and Hugh Ludlow, aged . » Pleaded guilty on charges of stowing away on the Papanui at Liverpool on August 3. According to Sub-Inspector McCarthy, the two men had left New Zealand as trimmers on the Otira in J«ay last. At Rio de Janeiro they aaa missed their ship and been given a passage to Southampton by the British Consul. They had then jaiked to Liverpool and “jumped’' the papanui. They were found when the • fil P was two days out. “Ludlow has appeared here on a similar charge °nce before,” added the sub-inspector. , Captain Hicks, of the Papanui, said niar. the men had worked well and ehaved themselves during the voy- ? e OU L He considered that they nouid receive some punishment, howVer » as stowing away was becoming °o frequent and should be checked. Both men were sentenced to 14 a Ts imprisonment. NO MONEY, LITTLE WORK It is understood, that, during their W*? tram P through England and ales tne two comrades had no °ney and found but little jvork. On truSi 8 at Southampton they had v to find a ship without success. ' thing daunted, they had set out o walk to London, more than a hunmiles distant, where they felt I r . e the y could find work or a ship. London they also drew a blank and a°y turned them toward Bristol, asy lived on dry bread with an ocpiece of cheese and slept wh no 9 0vei *ing but the sky, except . en a kindly farmer ope.ned his barn i.. them. Sometimes, * even that . » a nd they were forced to spend fme in the workhouse. Work could be found in Bristol, an* ey tramped on through Wales ih- arr * ve d in Liverpool. There \. e * found the Papanui bound for *ew Zealand and the urge was too « u ch for them.