DISPUTE IN STOKEHOLD OF STEAMER
SEAMAN SENT TO PRISON FOR ASSAULT (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) BLENHEIM, July 11A dispute that occurred in the stokehold of the overseas steamer Hororata while she was anchored at the Wanganui roadstead on July 6 resulted in the appearance at the/ Police Court, picton, this morning, of Francis Joseph Ferns, a seaman, who was charged with assaulting the second engineer, James Davidson, on the high seas. Proceedings were instituted on the information of the master of the vessel, Captain T. L. Maltby, who gave evidence that he regarded the incident too seriously to be dealt with aboard, and placed the matter in the hands of the police on the arrival of the vessel at Picton on Saturday. Ferns pleaded not guilty. Evidence was that the defendant, in a disoute with the second engineer in the stokehold about work and overtime, knocked him down. Ferns also knocked down the seventh engineer, who intervened, and was only restrained when the chief engineer arrived and picked up a monkey wrench, warning him to desist. The Justices of the Peace convicted Ferns and sentenced him to 21 days’ imprisonment. They ordered him to be returned to England on the first available New Zealand Shipping; Company vessel.
j. BaUantyne & Co. Ltd.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22451, 12 July 1938, Page 5
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