A LOVE-SICK SAILOR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20191, 31 August 1927, Page 5

A LOVE-SICK SAILOR.

FROM SHIP. YOUNG LADY IN NEW ZEALAND. “ Apparently he is love-sick,” said Chief Detective Cameron, when a young man named James Arthur Skinner was charged before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday with absenting himself without leave and without sumciept excuse from the British ship Matatua, on which he was engaged as a seaman. The defendant pleaded guilty. “ Ho was second cook on the Matatua,' said the Chief Detective, “ and he signed on in England for the round trip. He deserted from the ship in Auckland, lie has a younfj. lady hero 1 and he wants to stay in New Zealand.” The shipping company, the Chief Detective continued, had been put to the expense of engaging another man and paying him the New Zealand rate of wages. It had also to guarantee the new man his return fare to New Zealand, The ship had left for England a fortnight ago. and there was no chance, therefore, of the defendant rejoining it. The Magistrate: I suppose he forfeited some wages. The Defendant said he had left £l4 cr £ls on the ship. The Magistrate: Why did you stay in New Zealand? The Defendant: I have a young lady here. . Chief Detective Cameron said that Skinner had 4s Id in his possession when he was arrested. “ He seems a very decent type of young man' and no good object would be served if I sent him to prison,” said the Magistrate. He added 'that the defendant had suffered the penalty of losing £l4 or £ls. He would be convicted and ordered to conic up for sentence if called upon within six months.