DREDGE MAWHERA'S CREW.
AN INFORMATION DISMISSED,
{Pep, United Press Association.)
CITttISTCHUmr, February 3. At the Lyttellon Magistrate's Court to day Frederick Docheriy, a fireman on the Greymouth Harbour Board's new diedge Mawhera, was charged on the information of the captain with continued wilful disobedience of lawful commands during the voyage of the dredge from England. In his evidence Captain Wayman stated ' that Docherty complained of being ill. The crew were the most unruly crowd ho had ever had under him. They were a rough lot, and were mostly Australians who wanted to get home. It was a charitable action on his part to sign them on in Glasgow and bring them out Here. He had picked them up in the Sailors' Home in Glasgow, and had taken them for charity s sake. His officers had been mere children in their hands on the way out. The Magistrate (Mr H. W. Bishop) said that after hearing the evidence of the men and reading the entries in tho log book he was o! opinion that the crew of the dredge were a bad lot. There seemed to liavo been something so absolutely rotten on hoard the dredge that ho was not going to treat the case as lie I would have done had the. vessel been an ordinary one. The case would be dismissed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14439, 4 February 1909, Page 7
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222DREDGE MAWHERA'S CREW. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14439, 4 February 1909, Page 7
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