SEQUEL TO FIGHT WHARF

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28129, 19 November 1956, Page 7

SEQUEL TO FIGHT WHARF

Six Seamen Charged TWO OF ACCUSED FOUND TO HAVE KNIVES

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, November 18. As a sequel to a brawl on King’s Wharf on Friday evening, four British and two Danish seamen and a woman appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Two of the British seamen were charged with the recentlylegislated offence of carrying an offensive weapon. e The British seamen. David Colin Williams, aged 19, George Sellick, aged 20, Robert Hogg. Morris, aged 41. engineer, and John Fletcher, aged 19, are all from the cargo ship Cape York. The Danes. Povl Ottesen. aged 19, and Henrick Hermann Kjaerulff, aged 25. are from the Westralia. Gale Dayberg. aged 31, a married woman, admitted disorderly behaviour while drunk on the wharf. Mr H. L. Edwards, the police prosecutor, said neither ship’s master was interested in the men charged. After the brawl Williams and Sellick were found to be carrying sheath knives. Fle.tcher had a broken wrist and Morris stab wounds in a leg.. Mr R. M. Grant, S.M., sentenced Williams to imprisonment for a month on the knife charge and convicted and discharged him for fighting. He convicted and discharged Sellick on the knife charge, but fined him £5 for fighting. The other four men and Dayberg were each fined £5.