DESERTERS FROM SHIP
SEVEN DAYS' IMPRISONMENT VESSEL RETURNS TO ENGLAND The inconvenience caused to the agents of shipping companies through the desertion of members, of cre*s was referred to by Senior-Sergeant Flanagan, when two seamen, Gcoige Richard Johnson, aged 20 and James Edward Doherty, aged 32, appeared before Messrs. J. Hislop and J- «• Paterson, J.P.'s, in the Police Court on Saturday. They admitted that they had deserted from the Sydney Star. Senior-Sergeant Flanagan said the two men, and a third who bad already been before the Court, deserted tie ship at Auckland, but the warrants had been issued at Lyttelton. Ihe men had signed for the round trip. the agents had to find men to replace them and had to pay the substitutes at ISew Zealand rates. The company did not want the men back as the ship had left for England. Both men were convicted and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22724, 10 May 1937, Page 12
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