DISHONEST SEAMEN.
GOODS REMOVED FROM SHED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 26. Nine fir nen from the Tairoa were charged jointly with having received a bale of dress material ond a box of soap of a total value of £SO, knowing the goods to have been dishonestly obtained, and pleaded guilty. A charge of breaking and entering the shed and stealing goods valued at £127 was withdrawn. When the shed was opened it was found that the goods were missing, and a search of the vessel’s forecastle revealed the goods mentioned in the charge. It was explained that the men constituted a complete watch on the vessel, and the master was concerned as to his position if he were deprived of their services. Remarking that the act evidently contemplated some such position, and in the interests of the Dominion it was not desirable that the men should remain iprisoned here, the Magistrate said nc realised it might not be adequate punishment (he did not think it was), but he proposed to formally sentence the .m to a month’s imprisonment, they to ’>3 placed on board the ship before she leaves Wellington. He thought that preferable to having the men landed here. The Tairoa goes to Napier, then Homo.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 10
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209DISHONEST SEAMEN. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 10
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