PENANG TO SAIL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 3

PENANG TO SAIL.

MISSING SAILORS. FRUITLESS DELAY. OWNERS' HEAVY LIABILITY. After a week's fruitless waiting for three members of the crew who left the .'"•lit* la-t Friday nipht the Finnish barque IVnan; is expected to clear Auckland tM-morrcvv morn in™ for Port Aii;il-t;i in the Spencer <.u'f. to take in _;;un for Kuropo. Two additjonal Xew Zea I.uid-. r- w:]l probablv be — iput' 1 on. inn the messboy who cannot i>e found w iii hot be re3>l a >xl. The mi-sin;: men are two Finnish seamen. both aped alvmt -JO. and a .-mail coloured i.ny from -lu.ui df X.i\a. in the Seyciielie- (ironp. They left the Peranr without warninc a week a:o and no trace of them ha- since been found. The barque was to have sailed at fi a.m. la-t Saturday for t'ne Australian :-ort. imt Captain K. V. Karl-o.n deferred his delienture a week. Now. ill without his men. he will carry on across the Tasnian. Reside* the missing tTiree. two experienced i-ailors r-sprtiotl off the barque here a Dane and an Au-tralian—and in their place three New- Zealanders wore r-ipned oil. Two more yoiinjr men from Auckland will probably also stamp roim.l the capstan to-morrow morning when breakmcr out the anchor, to til! the place of the Finnish absentees. Restricted Immigrants. As the mii-snip: men are restricted immigrants. the owninjr company is liable to forfeit a bond of f 100 on each for their l epatriation and other expense- incurred. With, however, the liability out-landing on the sailor who left the Pamir and disT appeared, the sailor who was taken to hospital before the bipr barque sailed, and the injured Dane from the Penanjr (until he departs for Australia, where he mar rejoin his barque), the aggregate liabilitv £W)0. "It just means that these ships; will not come here any more." 1 commented a port official this morning, who pointed out that persons wilfully' harbouring the inis-in? men were also liable. Under section 14S of the Shipping and Seamen Act. 1!>08. anyone who wilfully harbours the men is liable to a tine not exceeding £20. and anyone who persuaded them to leave the ship to a fine not iii excess of £10.