DECEIVED POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 81, 5 April 1941, Page 5

DECEIVED POLICE.

FIREMAN WITH WRONG PASS. FOURTEEN DAYS' SENTENCE. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Friday. "The. only way to enforce co-opera-tion from the public is by letting them know that if they make a breach they go to prison," said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day in imposing a sentence of 14 days' imprisonment upon a marine fireman, Claude Howard Hamilton, who pleaded guilty to deceiving a constable who was exercising his powers under the Shipping Safety Emergency Regulations by using a pae|i not his own in order to get on board a ship. '•The difficulties of the police are many," said the magistrate, '"and if there is no co-operation from the publie their difficulties are going to be very much greater. Entrance to wharves, as everybody knows, is prohibited except by pass, and anyone who chooeee to deceive a police officer by a false pass or tries to get past by other means must suffer a heavy penalty."

Sub-Inspector G. H. Lambert said that Hamilton had formerly ibeen on the ship concerned. He borrowed a pass from a friend, also a former member of the crew, who had failed to hand it in. He presented the pass to a constaJble, but later the constable's suspicions were aroused. He went on board, and found accused in the e-ngine-room. Hamilton said he had gone on bovd to collect some belongi nge.