DESERTING SEAMEN
RETURNED TO THEIR SHIP. At the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Mr G. Cruickshank, S.M., two Dutch seamen, Ernst Wilhelm Svenson and Sigfrid Jonathan Holmlund, were charged with deserting thteir ship, the Svarten, while she was at Bluff. Both pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Scandrett said the men had got as far as Tuatapere before being arrested. The Svarten’s captain had been communicated with and had advised them that the Svarten was due to leave Timaru this afternoon. The men were convicted and ordered to re-join their ship, the costs of the prosecution to be borne by the captain. The Senior-Sergeant added that the men were prohibited immigrants and that the fact of their being at large rendered the captain liable to a fine of £lOO. •
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Southland Times, Issue 19172, 16 February 1924, Page 5
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125DESERTING SEAMEN Southland Times, Issue 19172, 16 February 1924, Page 5
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