DESERTIONS FROM OVERSEAS SHIPS
ASSUMING SERIOUS PROPORTIONS TWO MEN SENTENCED I United Press Association 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. Commenting that the number of desertions from Home ships Was assuming very serious proportions, Mr Luxford. S.M.. to-day sentenced William Thomas Cramp, aged 24, and Archibald Thompson. aged 33, to % month’s imprisonment with hard labour for desertion from the Maimoa at Picton on 23rd January.
Mr Luxford said that apparently every endeavour had been made to get the men aboard the 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 a week’s imprisonment
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 January 1939, Page 8
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