UNLAWFULLY ON WHARF
TROUBLE DUE TO DRINK
Drunkenness was advanced as an excuse on behalf of Gordon Archer, charged on summons in the Police Court to-day with a breach of the Shipping Safety Emergency Regulations, 1940. A constable said that on April 23 he stopped Archer from going on a wharf because of his condition, and warned him to go home, a timekeeper considering that Archer was too drunk to work on a ship. Archer left, but later the timekeeper approached witness and told him that Archer was on the ship. Witness did not see Archer on the ship, but found him on the wharf. He had got on the wharf by climbing round a "pricker." Appearing for defendant, Mr. Dickson said the whole trouble was caused by Archer being drunk and not knowing what he was doing. His idea in going to the ship was to get his gear which was on board. Apart from this he was a man of excellent character. "I know it is not a bad case, but it puts the constables to a lot of trouble. They have enough to do on the wharves these days," said the magistrate, who fined Archer £2.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 138, 13 June 1941, Page 8
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