SHIP’S COOK FINED £lO ON DESERTION CHARGE
(P.A.) AUCKLAND. June 23. Worried because their son- cabled under a false name, giving his forwarding address as the Auckland Post Office, the parents of Kenneth Charles Nicholas gave information to the London office of the New Zealand Shipping Company in the hope that the company would have him sent home. In the Police Court' today Nicholas, a ship’s cook, aged 19, pleaded guilty to deserting from the Rangitane. “Unfortunately the law does not enable. the court to deal with you in the way we would like." the maistrate. Mr. ,T. H. Luxford. told Nicholas. He added that it was to be hoped that statutory power would be given to place such offenders on probation and deport them to their own country. Nicholas was fined £lO and costs and also solicitor’s fees and was placed on probation for two years.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23288, 24 June 1950, Page 6
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