DESERTING SEAMEN
MATTER VIEWED SERIOUSLY TWO CHARGED AT WELLINGTON (Special to Dailv Times ) WELLINGTON, May 17. The accused was one of a number of men who deserted from the Tairoa in April and were the direct cause of the vessel being delayed while substitutes were found, said Mr M. C. Barnett, who appeared on behalf of the Shaw Sayill and Albion Company when William Lawrence Musgrave, a steward, aged 20, was charged in the Magistrate’s Court today with deserting from the overseas steamer Tairoa in Wellington on April 21, The frequency of the desertions was a matter of the gravest concern for shipping companies in New Zealand, Mr Barnett added. Two other men who had deserted from the Tairoa had already been dealt with by the court, and a sentence of one month’s imprisonment was imposed in each case. Musgrave pleaded guilty before Mr J. L, Stout, S.M., and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Charged with deserting from the steamer Aymeric in Wellington on April 28, a Malay seaman, Musa Bin Wok, aged 44, was remanded to appear at Wellington again tomorrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23811, 18 May 1939, Page 8
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