MAGISTRATE'S COURT
MERCHANT NAVY DESERTERS
"In these critical times desertions from any ship of the merchant navy are not to. be condoned and I ask that the full rigour of the law bs applied," said the representative of an overseas shipping company in the Magistrate's Court: today during the hearing of a case in which James Penton, a chef, aged 31, was charged with having deserted his ship at Wellington last month. -
The sole purpose of bringing the case was to stop desertions from being a menace, added counsel.
Penton was sentenced to one month's hard labour by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.
David James Phillips, a steward, aged 34, who was similarly charged, was also sentenced to one month's hard labour.
Charged with stealing a bicycle worth £8, belonging to Allan Ryan, on January 17, John Montague Dillon, a farm hand, aged 34, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 9
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159MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 16, 19 January 1940, Page 9
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