POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18496, 5 September 1923, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS.

TROUBLE ON THE MARAMA. ONE MAN'S SENTENCE REDUCED. ' •An echo of the trouble on, August 25, - with the jitokehold crew of the Union :. Company's steamer Marama, • which.v re-. " suited in 31 men being sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of hav- . ing, while on the high seas, combined; to disobey the lawful commands of the master, was heard in the, Police Court yesterday, before Mr.. J. W. Poynton, B.M. The case against one of the men, Burnett Walter Turner, was reheard. Accused was a young man who was making* his' . first voyage, having signed .on < nly : at Auckland. He said ho could not act against the majority, and was not capable • of stoking by himself. After the met} refused duty he told the master he was willing to work. He had been led by r . the others in his inexperience. '.■£ The Rev. Jasper Ca'tder supported Turner's -case. Thtere was a position on another vessel . available lor the young man. In the circumstances the ' magistrate reduced the sentence to seven days' imprisonment, and ; Turner was released. - , INCIDENT IN STREET. ; As the outcome of ail episode in Weilesley Street on Monday evening, Henry Mundy was charged with having been disorderly while drunk, having resisted a constable fin the execution of his duty,; and having used obscene language. He ' was fined £2 on the second charge. For inciting Mundy to resist the iconstable Arthur Hayward Dowsing was fined £2. f ...