SEAMAN'S OFFENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 8

SEAMAN'S OFFENCE

BOARDING PASS LENT FIVE DAYS' IMPRISONMENT (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 17. "These offences are making a lot of difficulties for the police, and 1 wjuid ask the court to treat the presem charge as serious," said Senior Sergeant D. Wilson at the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court to-day when George "Bromilow. a seaman, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting another man in an attempt to board an overseas ship without a pass, contrary to the Emergency Regulations. 1940. Senior Sergeant Wilson said that Eromilow had come ashore with his brother-in-law. and had the latter's pass, in his possession. He got into conversation with a young man named Whliam Harding, who expressed a desirs to see over the ship. The accused lent his brother-in-law's pass to Harding. The constable on duty at the gangway recognised Harding, however, and both men were taken to the police station. The accused told the court he had been drinking, and was in a muddled condition at the time of the offence. ."'Ordinarily, I would have sentenced you to 30 days' hard labour," said the magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey " but in the circumstances you will be sentenced to five days' imprisonment."