DESERTING SEAMEN
PROBLEM FOR THE COURTS DESIRE TO AVOID STIGMA (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 2. “ These cases are becoming increasingly numerous and increasingly difficult. The number of seamen who are deserting from overseas ships is very great and invariably they are brought before the court. Then we are faced with this problem-—that the deserting seaman is determined to make a start in New Zealand. If the courts are going to enforce the law the only way to deal with them is by imprisonment. Thus a person starting life in the Dominion starts with a sentence of imprisonment. The proper course was that adopted by the courts for many years when they had power to order a deserting seaman to be returned to his ship or to the country from which he sailed on the ship’s articles.” These remarks were made by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in such a case to-day. The accused was convicted and a fine Was imposed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 3 June 1938, Page 27
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