Adventures Of A Samoan
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Stowaway
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 16.
AT the Police Court on July 6, Pila Wilkes, a native of Western Samoa, was sent to gaol for six weeks with hard labour, then to be deported to Apia.
Wilkes has been having some hectic adventures. He stowed away at Apia on the steamer Cape Horn. At Vancouver he was deported and put on board the Aorangi. He escaped from the liner at Auckland, and two days later was re captured and sent to Wellington on board the Monowai for Sydney, In Australia he again disappeared, but was arrested at Circular Quay, Sydney, and failed to pass a dictation test in German.
Sub-Inspector Flower, of the Fiji Con stabulary, said that the next thing he heard of him was when he found him on the Cape Horn. He warned the captain not to allow Wilkes ashore at Fiji, but again the Samoan escaped. He remained free from June 26 till July 5, when a Punjabi police officer arrested him.