COURT'S ASSISTANCE SOUGHT IN KEEPING DISCIPLINE

Evening Star, Issue 26154, 16 July 1947, Page 6

COURT'S ASSISTANCE SOUGHT IN KEEPING DISCIPLINE

“ The crew has had a fairly good record, but discipline is more difficult to maintain than it was before the war, and while the behaviour of the accused has been good up to the present, I would be glad if the magistrate would give assistance in maintaining discipline on the ship,” said the captain of the vessel Kent, in the City Police Court this morning, when .Joseph Edward Davies, aged 32, ship’s butcher, of Liverpool, was charged before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., with breaking" plate glass to the value of 15s, the property of the New -Zealand Shipping Company. ' At 7.55 this morning the chief officer reported a disturbance in the galley, the captain said. Davies had been drunk during the night, and had kept the crew awake. The breakfast had been. thrown on the floor of the galley, and a window had been broken m the assistant steward’s cabin. The Magistrate convicted Davies and ordered him to come up for sentence in one month, Davies to make restitution forthwith. BROKE GLASS IN TELEPHONE BOXES. When they were returning from a dance to their ship, the Derrycunih.v, early this morning Patrick Kevin Gubbins. a steward (27), and-Clifford Robert Barron, an apprentice (18£), broke the glass in two telephone boxes in Macandrew road. They were charged with the offence this morning, and were convicted and fined £l. The Magistrate ordered that they make irood the damage, the payment of the amount of 19s 7d to be arranged through the captain of the vessel. THEFT CHARGE. Vivian Boyd Russell, a single man, aged 21, employed as a labourer, was charged with stealing £l2 and a pocket wallet valued at ss. the property of Thomas Rupert Winter. For the police. Chief-detective T. Y. Hall said that Russell was employed by a coal merchant, and earned £6 3s net a week. On the morning of July 13 Russell went to the house of his’friend. Winter, entered the bedroom while Winter was asleep, and took the wallet from a trouser pocket. Winter and (Russell had previously •been drinking together. Russell went to a pie cart, and then spent the money buying beer and sherry before going to the Kaik. He later admitted to the complainant that he had taken the money, and returned £5 10s and the wallet. On July 15, lie returned a further £1 10s, so that the complainant was still out of pocket to the extent of £5. Interviewed by Constable G. W. Golding, the accused said that he would not have taken the money if he had not been drunk. The Magistrate ordered that Russell be placed on probation for 12 months on the condition -that he make restitution to the complainant of the £5 as directed by the probation officer, and that during the period of probation he take out and observe the terms of a prohibition order.