SENTENCE FOR SHIP DESERTION
EXTENDED POWERS FOR COURTS SUGGESTED "The Press" Special Service
NEW PLYMOUTH, August 29. Hope that new legislation before Parliament would give the Courts power to send ship deserters back to the country from which they came was expressed by Mr J. H. Luxlord, S.M.. in the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court to-day. He added: “If we did, I am sure the racket of ship desertion would stop overnight.”
Mr Luxford said that in his opinion imprisonment for ship desertion was wrong. If a man was going to stay in the country, it was wrong that he should start off with a month in gaol. Anyone dealing with the criminal classes would see how often those who had started with imprisonment had drifted into criminal life. The proper method was to send them back to the country from which they came, but that power was not given the Courts at the present time.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 9
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