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“FOUND MYSELF ABOARD THE SHIP” STORY OF aTfBW DRINKS. Mr E. Page, S.M., was on the Bench at the Police Court yesterday. “I had been drinking fairly heavily at Lyttelton, Your Worship, and when I woke up qn the ship I had. no know, ledge of hoW I came aboard.” This was the explanation made by Arthur Veitcher, a 000 k, aged 63, who admitted a charge of stowing away on the 8.8. Maori from Lyttelton to Wellington. His Worship convicted the accused, and ordered him to come ur> for sentence when called upon within one year, and to pay JBI, the amount of his fare Within ono we«k.
William Robert Walter Mooney, a labourer, aged 26, oonvicted of a charge of stealing a quantity of scrap-iron, valued at abont -68, tbe property of Stevenson and Ferguson, of-Petone, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labour. Alexander Sophir, alias Thompson, a bootmaker (aged 63), who admitted a second offence of drunkenness, was convicted and discharged.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12548, 10 September 1926, Page 6
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168A STOWAWAY New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12548, 10 September 1926, Page 6
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