UNEMPLOYED SAILOR ‘BROKE’

Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1929, Page 11

UNEMPLOYED SAILOR ‘BROKE’

TRAMPED TO PORT SEEKING SHIP. ’a ' ,<"I plead guilty to being broke all fright,” said John. Dempster Lafferty, : v£ho ’.appeared before Mr. R. W. Tate, in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday on a charge of being an idle and disorderly person and having insufficient .lawful means of support. lie was convicted and discharged, the magistrate? '.Baying he did inot want to see himr U New Plymouth again; /■ lie had come to New Plymouth by road and was looking for a ship, said Lafferty to a question from' the magistrate. He had been in hospital in Christchurch and when he was discharged he went: to Wellington In the hope of securing a berth on the Canadian Victor, but failed. He thought he would get a ship at Auckland, but ran out of money on the way and came to New Plymouth- with the idea of getting a ship to Auckland. It ; was the first time he had been in such a condition, ho said, and ho was sorry to be like it. Senior-Sergeant McCrorie said there was nothing known in New Plymouth against the man, who was a complete stranger. The magistrate: He may be a sailo: out of work, I shall accept his story.