SHIP DESERTIONS
NUMBER BECOMING SERIOUS GAOL FOR TWO OFFENDERS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WELLINGTON, Monday Commenting that the number of desertions from Home ships was assuming very serious proportions, Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., to-day sentenced William Thomas Cramp, aged 24, and Archibald Thompson, aged 33, to one month's imprisonment with hard labour for desertion from the steamer Maimoa at Picton on January 23. Mr. Luxford said apparently every endeavour had been made to get the men aboard their 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 one week's imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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108SHIP DESERTIONS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23259, 31 January 1939, Page 11
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