DESERTER FROM SHIP
STEWARD’S BOV FINED (Per Press Association.) WKLLTNGTON, Ibis day.
I agree that there lias been quite an epidemic ol desertions, Iml 1 don’twant to send a hoy of 17 to gaol, especially when he is a British subject,” aid the magistrate, Mr. K. 11. Mosley,
when John Leslie Jones, a steward's hoy, to-day pleaded guilty of deserting from the Trojan Star.
Mr. Mosley said that Hie problem was mm of considerable difficulty. However, in view of the defendant’s youth and willingness In accept, a position offered him on a farm in Ihe country he would lie convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six moot hs.
When ordered to pay 12s rusts, Jones said his sole wealth was 2s. lie was given 21. days to pay.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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134DESERTER FROM SHIP Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19340, 2 June 1937, Page 15
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