TROUBLE ON PIAKO.
TRIMMER ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE. ORDERED TO PAY EXPENSES. "This man let us down rather badly the other day," said a representative of the New Zealand Shipping Company at the Police Court this morning, when Dennis Buckley, aged 29, a trimmer on the Piako, was charged with being absent without leave on Tuesday last. Buckley pleaded not guilty. It was stated that several men walked ashore with a grievance. When the company found two new men to sail on the ship, the complaining members of the crew returned to the ship, which afterwards got away. However Buckley was missing, with the result that engineers had to make a tour of the city after midnight to secure a substitute. A man was secured from the doss house, and the vessel eventually sailed after some delay. Buckley's explanation was that he did not think the ship would have sailed. When he went to go on hoard he discovered that the Piako had left. Buckley was convicted and ordered to pay expenses of his arrest, £2 10/, or seven days' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 283, 29 November 1929, Page 8
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