UNLAWFULLY IN SHIP

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 17

UNLAWFULLY IN SHIP

Hid Inside Wardrobe Ngadrie Natalie Wallace, aged 29, a married woman, pleaded guilty to a charge of being found unlawfully aboard the vessel, Tasmania Star, on May 25, when she appeared before Messrs L. J. Shuker, JP„ and R. H. Duff. J.P., in the Magistrate’s Court at Lyttelton, yesterday. The police alleged she had been found hiding in the wardrobe of a member of the crew and wias dressed only in her underclothes when they searched the Tasmania Star at Lyttelton last Saturday morning. < -

John Conning, aged 25, a seaman aboard the Tasmania Star, pleaded guilty' to a charge of aiding and abetting Wallace in the commission of the offence. Each was convicted and fined £5.

Senior-Sergeant D. G. M. Simpson told the Court that Conning had shared his bunk with the previous defendant overnight. As a result of a complaint by the ship's officers, the police searched the Tasmania Star. Found Drunk

Peter Miles Deer, a 23-year-old electrician, employed in the tanker, Clyde Explorer, pleaded guilty to charges that on May 27 be was found drunk in Norwich Quay and that he wilfully damaged a soil can. valued ait £3 16s 6d, the property of the New Zealand Government. , Deer pleaded guilty to both charges, was convicted, ordered to make restitution, and was find £1 on the drunkenness charge. Simpson told the Court that Deer had become obstreperous after being spoken to by a police officer and had been taken into custody The second offence occurred while the defendant was in a cell.