CALM WATERS AT LAST

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11664, 31 October 1923, Page 6

CALM WATERS AT LAST

THE FOREST HOME SOLO

SENSATIONAL COURT CASES RECALLED.

“THE SHIPPER” AND HIS GUN!

An interesting vessel is the Forest Horne which has r.nu© mere dropped anchor in Port Nicholson. Since her departure from the Pacific Coast her travels have been marked with adventures of the wildest description. A finish has now been placed upon tho trials that have visited the schooner, for Messrs H. Holm and Company, of Wellington, have bought tin Forest Home following upon an order made at the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court, which stated that the vessel must bo gold to satisfy claims for the crew's wages and other debts. The schooner's first (and last) trip across tho Atlantic resulted in *n extremely unsatisfactory state of affair? in the crew’s quarters, which uHimately found several of the seamen in court tbirged with assault on the master. A little later the state of atfaiis was reversed and the crew sued the captain for Assault. At xhis stage amazing allegations were preferred against the master, who the cr?»v said threatened them with a revolver on the voyage, and who threatened to shoot his crew if the duties were rot carried cut specifically. There followed further actions for wages, etc., which left little doubt as to the existing state of restlessness. Certain of the crew were imprisoned for offences, and on the vessel leaving tins port for Wanganui the trouble had not ceased. At this latter port the crew continued their claims witn the ultimate above result. The Forest Home is a wooden veesei and carried a cargo of timlier to New Zealand from America. She will still be used as a timber and general carrier by Messrs Holm and Companv. But the good old days when the law was carried out on her decks, and the Forest Home rode the high seas under a guardianship of a man with a revolver, are now apparently gone for ever.