GERMAN DESERTER TO STAY
——♦ —— THREAT FROM SHIPMATES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 10. On a charge of deserting from the German ship Dortmund at New Plymouth in April, 1939, Arthur Waldemar Graubman, aged 20, a German seaman, was admitted to probation for two years in the. Magistrate's Court. For failing to register as an alien he was fined £lO. The police said that Graubman had stated that his German shipmates bad threatened to hand fiim to the German police when the ship returned to Gei> many. He had been working on a farm near Hamilton and his employer was anxious to retain his services. The Collector of Customs asked the Magistrate (Mr J. Morling) to make an order for deportation, which could not become effective until after the war. The Magistrate adjourned the application sine die. He told Graubman that his behaviour in New Zealand had been excellent, and there was no reason to believe that he would do anything against the interests of the country.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23302, 12 April 1941, Page 5
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