SHORE LEAVE SEQUEL

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 19

SHORE LEAVE SEQUEL

Seamen Appear In Court (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 30. Ten members of the crew of the Captain Cook, and one new immigrant who travelled in the ship, were arrested within 24 hours of the ship arriving. When dealing with the men in the Magistrate’s Court today Mr J. S. Hanna, S.M., commented: “It’s been <a big day for the Captain Cook, hasn’t it.” The offences ranged from drunkenness to one man who admitted carrying a spring knife in a fight with another crew member.

One man was arrested twice yesterday for drunkenness. He was arrested at midday and bailed out at 4 p.m.,' and was arrested again at 7 p.m. Another man who was arrested had an association with the Captain Cook—he arrived as an immigrant, and was arrested for drunkenness. He damaged the padded cell in which he was locked up. All those arrested were Scots. Drunkenness Charge The immigrant, John Smith Young, a 23-year-old Scottish linesman, was arrested for drunkenness late yesterday afternoon. He became aggressive in the cell, said the police prosecutor (Mr K. O. Evans), and was transferred to a padded cell. When he was visited later the police found he had ripped the canvas off the back of the door, and had taken the padding out. Young was fined £3 and £1 costs on the damage charge, and was ordered to pay £4 for the repair of the door. Carried a Knife John Oliver, a 21-year-old seaman. pleaded guilty to a charge of fighting and also to carrying an offensive weapon—a springloaded knife. Mr Evans said the police saw Oliver fighting in Dixon street. He was arrested and when searched the knife was found. “He denied the knife was used in the fight and said that he used it aboard ship for cutting rope,” Mr Evans said. “It ought to be widely known now that to be merely in possession of a knife of this sort you are liable to 12 months in prison, or a fine of £lOO, or both,” said the Magistrate. -He fined Oliver £2 for fighting and £3 for carrying the knife. The Magistrate ordered immediate payment of the fine, or seven days in gaol in default. The knife : was confiscated. Converted Bicycle Another seaman, Joseph James Kilkie, aged 20, admitted converting a bicycle and was fined £5 and costs £l. In default of immediate payment he was sentenced to 10 days in gaol. Mr Hanna ordered that "if Kilkie could not pay his fine, and went to gaol, then he was to be put i aboard the Captain Cook before the ship sailed. Mr Evans said that a traffic inspector had his attention drawn to Kilkie riding a bicycle. The ; police were called and Kilkie adi mitted the bicycle was not his. The other members of the crew I who were arrested were charged > with common drunkenness, and ' being first offenders were con- ; victed and discharged.