ABSENCE FROM SHIP

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 13

ABSENCE FROM SHIP

STEWARDS’ REFUSAL

TO SIGN ON

three men sentenced AT WELLINGTON <NeW W^?‘L PreSS Assoctationj Thran Wellington, March 24 Without S leXe rd fr COnV iu e - d of a bsence ordered to be ■ th j Xr - shi » and aged 20 R ® l 'T’ ic Joh n Phillips, in ,1 » Ronald Albert Haves appH SH" « d b e nOt de?S £ e Hhem to° d b a e y ri th t e - M oXed •a b detained m custody for Months PeriOd not exceeding Lee [accused. A ‘ Scott a PP ea « d for the >*he r ?wn „ t t '? d the CoUrt that he and down t„ tT n aCCUS . e< ? had been taken exSS-fIS th . e Ran Sitata and had been Stewed "T /’ gn u on as assistant 1 J, h ° u 8 ht this was unusual ‘wan? b eeS ' he ¥' d ' “ and ’ 1 did not /■vant to be a member of the crew or I work for that company, so we refused 1 to sign on. r - Sub-Inspector C. L. Spencer said tne three men were then taken back io» gaol.

<Y=>Sl r *^ c ?^X submi^ at statute satai that the men were to be “placed on. board ship.” These men had been placed on board ship, but they had then been placed “off board” ship, and w<ere entitled to their freedom. It had peen the shipping company’s duty to take them away.