FOUR MEN ILLEGALLY ON SHIP
ALL LIABLE FOR MILITARY SERVICE WARRANT FOR DESERTION ISSUED FOR ONE (Press Assn.) Auckland, Aug. 9. As the result of a search of an overseas vessel yesterday afternoon by a number of police, four men were arrested and they appeared in the Police Court to-day. They were: Walter Norman Hogg, aged 32, a carpenter; John Armstrong. 38, and Frank Walter Fincher, 25, both slaughtermen, and George Andrew John Lopas, 24, an electric welder, charged under the Shipping Safety Emergency Regulations with entering aboard a ship on August 8 without a permit. Lopas also was charged with a breach of the Change of Name Regulations by assuming the name of Parker. The police obtained a remand in each case until Friday next. “These men were found on an ocean-going ship yesterday and arrested,’’ said Senior-Sergeant Joyce. “All are liable for military service. In the case of one, a warrant for arrest on a charge of deserting from the Army had been issued. In the case of another a search had been made lor 12 months." The four men were remanded in custody.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 187, 11 August 1941, Page 6
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