CAPTAIN ASSAULTED
SEAMAN PINED £2 (Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, this day. Samuel Evans, 29,. a fireman on the Port Bowen, was flied £2, in default .seven days’ gaol, for giving the captain a black, qye on the bridge before the steamer sailed for Opua. last evening. He joined at Adelaide, and wished to sign off at Auckland. The skipper stated that the shipping office was the only place Evans could sign off, whereon the fireman struck him. When halfway down the ladder to the deck Evans produced a razor and said: “ Look here, I’m going to get you when you’re asleep.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16580, 22 February 1928, Page 11
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101CAPTAIN ASSAULTED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16580, 22 February 1928, Page 11
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