DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 47, 25 November 1908, Page 503

DESERTERS FROM HIS MAJESTY’S SERVICE.

From H.M.S. “ Pioneer," 18th instant

Timaru.— George W. Bates, age nineteen, height 5 ft. 6f in., ordinary seaman, native of Australia, light-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion. Sydney B. R. Stringfellow, age eighteen, height 5 ft. in., ordinary seaman, native of New Zealand, light-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, soir on third finger of right hand.

A reward of £3 will be paid for the arrest of each,

From H.M.S. “ Cambrian," 6th November.

Sydney.— Joseph Bish, age nineteen, height oft. 4 in., seaman, native of England, brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, small sear on right shoulder-blade. Several dots on left forearm.

Edward Hill, age twenty-two, height 5 ft. sJin., stoker, native of Halifax, England, dark-brown hair, grey eyes, fresh complexion, tattoo-marks on right wrist. A reward not exceeding £3 will be paid for the apprehension of each.

From H.M.S. “ Gibraltar ,” 21st October ,

Premantle. — Peter Knowles, age thirty-one, height 5 ft. 2in., A. 8., native of St. Helens, black hair, grey eyes, sallow complexion, “P. K.” in left arm.

William James Crutchett, age thirty-two, height 5 ft. 6 in., A. 8., native of Torquay, brown hair, brown eyes, ruddy complexion, snake, flower, bracelet, and woman tattooed on left forearm.

A reward not exceeding £3 will be paid for the apprehension of each.