TWO MEN ADMIT SHIP DESERTION
12 MONTHS’ PROBATION FOR OFFENCES
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. August 18. When the ship Suva arrived from Sydney to-day, two Ktowaways were handed over to the police. Later, Ross Sinclair Brown, aged 19, a New Zealander, and Leslie Laurence Goodburn, aged 20, an Australian, admitted charges of Stowing away on August 10. The police said that Brown had developed home-sickness after an illness Goodburn said he would like to settle in New Zealand. Both offered to pay tbeir fares when work was available.
The Magistrate (Mr H. Jenner Wily, S.M.) admitted both men to probation for 12 months, and ordered each to pay his fare, £2O, as arranged by the probation officer.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25577, 19 August 1948, Page 3
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