'Ship Desertion Becoming Rocket'
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, This Day. “The offence of ship desertion is so common as to have the earmark of an organised racket ,and if this offence is to become part of the Dominion s immigration policy, it is one of which a great body of New Zealanders will not approve,’’ said Mr J. C. Robertson, appearing for the owners of the Pipiriki, when Albert Leonard Redford, donkeyman, 26, and Charles Edward Sheather, engineer, 22. appeared on a charge of desertion. Mr Robertson added that legislation should provide for deportation after the expiry of a prison sentence. Defendants were sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.
It was stated that the men were of good type and Redford had a satisfactory war record.
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Northern Advocate, 29 October 1946, Page 6
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