DESERTED THEIR SHIP
SEAMEN IN TROUBLE Described by the shipping official who prosecuted as being “as rough and as tough as they make them,” Arthur Kent, aged 40, and Daniel Burke, aged 45, looked a sorry picture as they stood in the dock before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court on Saturday morning charged with unlawfully deserting from the ovetseas steamer Mahana at n ellington. “We left the ship because we were promised a good job here,” said Kent. “We didn’t get the job, so we want to go back to the ship now.” The shipping representative who prosecuted said that the crew of the vessel, who came from Liverpool, were a rough lot and had caused a lot of trouble on board. On the night the ship sailed from Wellington the chief officer was assaulted and the men responsible were to be tried at Napier. As all efforts to trace the two accused had been unsuccessful the Mahana had left Wellington without them. Each of the accused was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment and ordered to be placed on board the ship before she sails from Napier on Tuesday. They were also ordered to pay £5/4/9, the expenses incurred by the shipping company, between them.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 110, 3 February 1930, Page 9
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