MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22268, 6 December 1937, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

* SATURDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young. S.M.) ABSENT FROM SHIP Arthur Noble Heaney, a seaman, aged 25, of the United States, who pleaded guilty to a charge of deserting from the s.s. Naumburg at Wellington on November 12, was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, a condition being that he be placed on board the ship on its arrival at Lyttelton. Mr C. E. Purchase, who appeared for Gollin and Company, the Christchurch agents for the owners, said that Heaney was absent without leave within 24 hours of the ship sailing from Wellington.' The ship was now in Australian waters, and would not be back in Lyttelton till December 28. He asked that accused be remanded in custody, and then be put on board. The master of the ship wanted him placed on the ship when it returned. Accused claimed that when he signed on he was told that it would be for a two and a half months’ trip, and so far he had been out four months. He did not think that that was right. If he had been told that he would not have signed on in a foreign ship. REMANDED Lance Irwin Anderson was charged with converting to his own use a motor-car valued at £228 at Pordell. and with stealing a travelling rug valued at £l. the property of Vivian James Bryant. Anderson was remanded to appear on December 7.