CITY POLICE COURT
Monday, December 30 (Before. Messrs W. Jacobsen, J.P., and E. Longworth, J.P.) Sent to Prison Paul Malcolm Grant aged 20 years, and Gordon Tibbutt Wells, aged 19, both seamen, appeared on charges of desertion from the s.s. Pakeha at Lyttelton on November 19. Both pleaded guilty.—Senior Sergeant J. H. Hogg said that since the accused walked off the ship at Lyttelton they had been employed near Dunedin. On December 6 a warrant for their arrest was issued at Christchurch, and they gave themselves up to the Dunedin police on Saturday last.—Both the accused were sentenced to two weeks’ imprisonment. Drunkenness .George McCorkindale, a labourer, aged 64 years, was charged with being drunk in the Queen’s Gardens. He was fined 10s and costs, and the justices directed that he should take out a prohibition order.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26348, 31 December 1946, Page 9
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