LYTTELTON NEWS
SEAMEN’S INSTITUTE Members of the Ladies’ Guilds of the British Sailors’ Society from the various towns in Canterbury as far as Ashburton were entertained at afternoon tea at the Seamen’s Institute, Lyttelton, yesterday afternoon. Mr R. Browning, president of the Lyttelton branch of the society, and Mr A. K. Dyne, vicepresident, welcomed the guests and a talk on the work of the institute was given by the Rev. J. Evans. Magistrate’s Court
Four seamen who pleaded guilty to charges of having deserted from overseas ships at Lyttelton were each sentenced to one month’s imprisonment at the Lyttelton Magistrate’s Court yesterday. They were Michael Joseph Heffernon, Richard Durney, Sidney Dimond, and Edward Snow. Snow, whose age is 22, said he had been a prisoner in the Altmark early in the war. The men pleaded that conditions aboard their ships were bad. Messrs W. C. Cleary and W. T. Lester, Justices of the Peace, were on the Bench.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24076, 12 October 1943, Page 3
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