INCIDENT ON SHIP.
SEAMAN FINED
Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Nov. 7. As the result of an incident aboard the motor vessel Armadale between Lyttelton and Dunedin, a seaman, Edward Haslam, had to be apprehended by the captain and officers. The police stated to-day, in Court, that Haslam, who was charged with assaulting Frederick George Gwyer on November 5, partook of a considerable amount of liquor at Lyttelton and got possession •of a razor and chased Cwyer. Haslam was put in the hospital room, but smashed the door with a stretcher. Ho was then seized by the crew and locked ill the forepeak. When examined here he was fairly rational, but still suffering from alcohol. Accused signed on in _ South Wales and had more or less misbehaved on the voyage out. Haslam was fined 20s or two days’ gaol,- the Magistrate remarking: “The ship will have to take him; we don’t want him here.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 7 November 1934, Page 7
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153INCIDENT ON SHIP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 291, 7 November 1934, Page 7
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