ON SHIP WITHOUT PERMIT
PRISON SENTENCE FOR WOMAN iP.A.) AUCKLAND, March 16. Charges of boarding a ship in Wellington without a permit and of assaulting a police matron, were admitted by Ivy May Co'nish. aged 25, a domestic, in the Magistrate’s Court, before Mr J. Morling. S.M. The police said that she was seen on a Wellington wharl at 2.15 a.m. on January 31, being assisted up a rope to the ship. She was later found in a cabin. Cornish wrote to the Magistrate's Court in Wellington admitting the offence. but the charge required her to appear in Court and she was arrested at Auckland. While being searched she jabbed a cigarette in the police matron's face and kicked her on the shins which were badly bruised. Defending counsel said that Cornish thought the matter was ended when she wrote to the Wellington Court and she obj-cted to being arrested and searched. The Magistrate sentenced her to two weeks' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23589, 17 March 1942, Page 3
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