DESERTION FROM SHIP
George Hall Duffy, marine engineer. 22, who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today to deserting from his ship at New Plymouth, was sen tenced to one month's hard labour by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M. Senior-Sergeant G. Paine said it was not the ordinary case of a seaman deserting. The accused was an officer, and the company had been put to a good deal of inconvenience and expense. The ship had to go from New Plymouth to Lyttelton without a sixth engineer, and a man had to be taken from an essen tial industry in Christchurch to fill the vacancy. Duffy had become infatuated with a woman at Johnsonville. 3nd had come down to see her.
To the Magistrate Duffy said he had tried to get through to Lyttelton. but had been unable to obtain a berth.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 9, 10 July 1943, Page 6
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