SHIP DESERTIONS
I\IEN COMING OFF IN DROVES
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 9. When prosecuting 11 seamen for desertion in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, Senior Sergeant M. Lines said that in recent weeks 10 men deserted from the Waimana, nine from the Mahai, 14 from the Port Adelaide and two from the Yoho Park. All these vessels were represented in the morning’s prosecutions. A seaman from the Port Adelaide was sentenced to 14 days’ gaol, a Delabella man was remanded until Monday and the rest were given the maximum of one month. The eldest was 26, three were 19 and the remanded man 18.
“You people are corning off these .ships in droves,” said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M. “I see some criticism in the Supreme Court about it. I don’t think they know as much about it as we do.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1946, Page 2
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