DESERTERS PUNISHED.
- (Per ,P^e_s .Association.) ,:>"/ ;,'.' ' -_.- -AUCKLAND, this day. j. Three ..ailors were-, charged m the Police Com;t . y^sterdiiy „ with having- der sert'ed .fr^V^e-^st/eamer' Ij^a Ora ori April 10.' *InSy eacn 'had a plausible tale to -tell, that they had gone down* to ( rejoin the .ship, biit had found hei*; gone. They professed ' keen* "anpety to> g&'t bapk to' the Kia Ora.. " Evidence -for the.' prose'eutjohr As' giVeit. by it. represb'_it_xtivd' Of 'the' Kia'Oi-a's agents, was to the e^ffect that .when thfe. three '"'men dhii-Vged : With"'.defeerti6n called at- the •agents o'Aces And V^btairted ; v ni6hey „ ori tlt'e n'ndei-'sta'hdi'ng tHat/they yould" rfeijoiri the vessel at Wellingtdn, tliey had made v themselves '.scai'ce again. . It was men- 1 tidied' m. fli'fe" Kia* Ora would reach the Bluff that morning, andHvoHild leave New Zealand from Wellington early in -'May. The defaulting sailors were convicted, -and each sentenced to three weelcs'-vimprisonmnt, : tihe term to he red -teed; if necessary, by having theni -placed; on board the vessel' before it 'leaves the country. 'It was intimated tliat they "would, be sent, to rejoin the: vessel at Wellington.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12739, 17 April 1912, Page 5
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181DESERTERS PUNISHED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12739, 17 April 1912, Page 5
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