DESERTERS FROM SHIPS
PAIR BEFORE COURT GAOL FOR THREE WEEKS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Found in a railway horse box in the Thomdon station yard on Friday. Henry Leslie Bitter, aged 20 years, and Thomas Henry Hodgson, aged, 38, pleaded guilty to-day to charges of desertion from the steamers Uangitaiie and Hertford respectively and being unlawfully on enclosed premises. Each was fined £1 on the respective second charges, and for desertion each was sentenced to gaol for 21 days. Hodgson is to be placed aboard if the ship sails before the expiry of the sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15
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