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TWO YOUNG SEAMEN
DESERTION CHARGES
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN. This Day.
"We 'jumped' our ship because conditions are better here than at Home," said Charles Smith, aged 22. who, with James Wilson, aged 24, admitted a charge in the Police Court today of deserting from the Kaipara at Lyttelton.
Senior-Sergeant Classen told the Court that the men were arrested last evening.
Mr. L. H. W. Jones, who represented the shipping company, said that the Kaipara had now sailed for Australia, en route to England. "These men were signed on in England and have been written off the articles as deserters," he said. "Desertions from overseas ships have been on the increase. It must be the attractive wages in New Zealand that is making the men feel they want to stay here. We ask for a short sentence as a deterrent." Smith: We will eventually get a job if allowed to remain here. Mr. J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.: What wages do you forfeit? Smith: About £18. ' x Mr. Bartholomew: That is a bit of an offset as far as the shipping company is concerned. Mr. Jones: No, sir. We don't get that. It has to be paid to the Board of Trade in London. Both men were sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 115, 18 May 1938, Page 6
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