QUESTION TO MAGISTRATE.
•WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?" (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. "If you had been in my position and had the opportunity of bettering yourself, and the master said to you, 'All right, leave this ship, I ha,ve hundreds of men to take your place,' what would you have done?" Such was the question put by a fireman named Dickens to Mr. Page, S.M., when he was answering a charge of unlawfully deserting from the liner lonic. IC was stated by the company's representative that four members of the crew deserted and took their gear with them. The ship was held up for two hours. The magistrate told Dickens that if the master was content to discharge him he should have been discharged properly. Accused was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment. A companion. Edward Campbell, a trimmer, received a similar sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 12
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144QUESTION TO MAGISTRATE. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 12
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