Deserters Sent To Gaol
[Per Press Association. Copyright! WELLINGTON, Monday.
Commenting that the number of desertions from home ships was assuming very serious proportions, Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., today sentenced William Thomas Cramp (24) and Archibald Thompson (33) to one month’s hard labour for desertion from the steamer Maimoa at Picton on January 23. Mr. Luxford said apparently every endeavour had been made to get the men aboard their ship, but they refused to go. For being found without lawful excuse in a carriage in the railway yards, each man was fined £2 in default one week’s imprisonment.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1939, Page 3
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