SHIP DESERTED.
N.Z. TOTJTH; CHAR3XD. (Br Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHAXGAREI, this day. "There ha> been trouble with a number of English seamen deserting of late, but as this is a ease of a New ZeaI will eonvi.'t defendant and discharge him." sail! Mr. G. X. Morris, S.M., in lite Magistrate's Court this morning, when William Phillip Lewis Thompson, aged 20, painter, employed at WhaiiL'arei. appeared on a charge of deserting the s.s. Matakana. He pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Finch said that Thompson had signed on in Auckland on December 24 last year as second cook, but had deserted two day* later when the veaeel arrived at Wellington.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1938, Page 9
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