Prohibited Immigrant: Charge Against Seaman
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —Although a Finnish seaman charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with being a prohibited immigrant was not represented by counsel, a solicitor present, Mr J. A. Grace, applied for a re-hearing after the man had been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and an order made ■for his deportation. The accused was Raime Olavi Karhunen, aged 20, who had been a member of the crew of the Norwegian tanker, Herbrand, which sailed from Wellington on Friday evening, and from which two Norwegian seamen fell when the vessel was at the heads. There was no interpreter jpresent today when Karhunen was charged and he spoke no English. Mr Grace applied for a re-hearing of the case to enable an interpreter to be present. ___
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1949, Page 5
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