MARRIED IN WELLINGTON

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1935, Page 10

MARRIED IN WELLINGTON

FINED IN SYDNEY

HAD NOT INTENDED TO OFFEND

(Received July 6, 2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY,'This Day. John Adams and Edward Barton, who .were involved in the wreck of a launch on June 28 at Sydney Heads, were each fined £2 or four days1 hard labour at the Central Police Court for having behaved offensively in a city street on the evening of June 28. Adams said that although he pleaded guilty he had not intended to offend anyone. "We were destitute and were singing in the hope of securing enough money to pay for a bed for my wife for that night." The men were allowed seven days in which to pay, but they intimated that this was impossible and they would have to go to gaol.

A launch containing two men and a woman broke down outside Sydney Heads on the evening of June 28 and drifted towards the reef at Avalon. The occupants of the launch were 'a man named Adams and his Maori wife, who had been married in Wellington three weeks previously. With the other man they purchased the launch and were en route to the Hawkesbury River when the engine broke down. Mrs. Adams swam 200 yards through heavy surf and arrived exhausted but managed to gasp out details of the •light of the launch and its two occupants were rescued, but the L launch was wrecked.