ADVICE COMES TOO LATE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 5

ADVICE COMES TOO LATE

Company’s Explanation. Press Association—Copyright. Auckland, April 9. With regard to Gordon Beehre, the Auckland boy stranded at Melbourne, the Auckland office of the HuddartParker Company stated that the boy’s passage was booked by his guardian at Auckland, presumably the aunt referred to in to-day’s cable, who also made arrangements with a passenger aboard the Wanganella to look after him on the voyage. Children are not allowed to travel in the company’s vessels, it was stated, except under the charge of an adult. No advice of the lad’s plight had been ’eceived by the company’s office at Auckland and the name and address of the person who had booked the lad’s passage were not known. It was stated by an uncle of Gordon Beehre that on the day the Wangaaella left Auckland he had received word from the boy’s parents that they were going from Melbourne to Sydney and to postpone the journey for a week.' It was too late to cancel the passage and he had sent the parents a cablegram to the Sydney post office. He had not received a reply and did not know the boy had not found his parents.