WANTED A SOUVENIR
INCIDENT ON VISITING SHIP AT TOP OF MAST AT MIDNIGHT I Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Jan. 2. A midnight adventure on the German barque Kommodore Johnsen in search of a souvenir led to the appearance of Wilfred Sefton Emmett, aged 27, of Wanganui, in the New Plymouth Police Court to-day for the cutting adrift of the wind vane at the top of the mizzen mast. This cost him a £1 fine for mischief and he was ordered to pay the North German Lloyd Shipping Company £2 for the cost of the damage. For being found drunk on the wharf he was convicted and discharged. A noise at the top of the mast at midnight drew the attention of officers, according to evidence, and a man was sent aloft. Emmett refused to descend till the police were called. The master, Captain Clausen was concerned because he feared it would be thought that his cadets were responsible for the disturbance. “1 did not intend any insult,” said Emmett to the Bench, “but merely wanted a souvenir.” "If it had not been.for the festive season the penalty would have been greater.” said Mr. W. C. Weston, J.P. "He should have been doubly careful, because it was a visiting German ship that we are all pleased to have here.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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219WANTED A SOUVENIR Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 7
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