DESERTER FROM SHIP
WORKED AS FARM HAND [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] GISBORNE, Thursday Pleading guilty to a charge of deserting from the Mataroa at Auckland on November 14, 1938, an Irish youth, John Anthony Gilmore, aged 18, appeared this morning before Mr. E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Police Court, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on Monday. Senior-Sergeant J. F. H. Macnamara said that since accused left his ship he had been working at Otoko as a farm labourer. He was arrested yesterday. The vessel had left New Zealand waters and the Gisborne police had received advice from the Wellington olßce of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company that it did not want him back. No instructions had heen received from Auckland. The senior-sergeant's request for sentence to be deferred was granted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 15
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