SHIP DESERTER
Magistrate’s Comment A sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed on James Alfred King, ship's steward, aged 21, when he appeared before Mr. Luxt'ord, S.M., in the Magistrates' Court, Wellington, yesterday, charged with deserting liis ship at Wellington, on November S. A representative of the shippintr company said that King '.>as one of eight men who deserted tlie same ship. Such wholesale desertions bad a disturbing effect on the rest of the crew. He asked that King be dealt witli severely. In reply to a question Io the magistrate as to whether it did not occur to Idm Hint lie was doing a national Service by serving on a -hip. King said that it had. but lie wanted l<> set tie in New Zealand, where he thought lie would do better than in London The magistrate said Ilia: New Zealand was expecting her young men to go overseas, and was not ex lend inc invitations to others to come lo New Zealand. Il was hardly the time for
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 137, 5 March 1940, Page 5
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