DESERTION CHARGES
FOUR. SEAMEN IMPRISONED
"Conditions in New Zealand, with short hours and good wages, are apparently too attractive to overseas seamen," said Mr. G. E. Arms in the Magistrate's Court today, when desertion charges were preferred against four seamen from the Port Denison. They were Robert Morrison, aged 30, and Charles Ernest Todd, aged 20, both able seamen, and Thomas Giles, a greaser, aged 26, and Sidney Edward Jameson, a fireman, aged 45. Mr. Arms said that the offence of desertion was becoming too common, and was putting the shipping companies to considerable expense. Something had to be done about it. Todd said that two men had been signed on in their stead, well before the ship left. If they had known this they could have demanded their discharges. The four had all lost pay. Two of the defendants said that they had no intention of deserting. They were drinking arid had missed the ship. , The four defendants were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. ■ ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 11
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