FINN IN COURT.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 5. Unable to speak English, and with his ship at Suva, loading for Mexico, a Finnish seaman, Ture Ahlgren, aged 38, created a problem when he appeared before Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, charged with deserting from a loreign ship on August 27, and also with unlawfully entering New Zealand without a permit. Through an interpreter accused denied deserting from ‘his ship, saying he had got drunk and missed it by accident. He added he was anxious to rejoin his ship and did not want to stay in the country. The Vice-Consul for Finland (Mr C. Tudehopef suggested that accused might be sent to a port on the American coast, where his ship would call. The Magistrate stood the case down till the morning in order that inquiries could he made about the future of accused.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 239, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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