GERMAN POSES AS A SWISS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 249, 16 October 1918, Page 1

GERMAN POSES AS A SWISS.

ENGAGED IX A POrtT CHALMERS • FOUNDRY.

(United Prww» /ioeociatioa.)

XKU'NLEDLNj This 'Day. Eugene, Seigel,;a 'young' German, call-r----ed l at Stevenson and Cook's foundry, Port Chalmers, recently, and applied for employment. He w its asked his .nationality, and replied thsj-t he was a Swiss. He * ivas eventually given work, with the result that in the Police Court today • Seigle was charged that, being ut» unlicensed alieii, he engaged on .work on a certain steamer. Stevenson and C'oolc ■ were charged with permitting Seigle to vvork on. .tho steamer. Seigle pleaded guilty.; It was in order to gat work that he said' lie, was a, 1 Swiss.'' He worked only one day, -The firm be!feved he was a Swiss. n Counsel for, £.teveiiscxn and Cook sin'd the trouble arose through the man tftlU. ing an untruth when, asked for ■_ his papers. Jrle said he would bring - them the following day, but he did not do «<•. saying the police Kadi them. - The, mill),? , ag'er rang y\\ the police. Seicle was sentenced; to three moivtlii. imprisonment,, and Stevenson and Coo 1 .: were fined 10 and' costs. /•Mr Young, S.M., said tho'firm ■shoul.q..: have taken further precautions- before, engaging the man. . ■, : The police stated that Seigle hud', imported himself daily since the vp" stvated, and his conduct had> been all that could be desired.. - t \ ■