TOO MANY DESERTIONS FROM SHIPS
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NEW PLY1MOUTH, June 37. A suggestion that, m view of the many cases of desertion trm: overseas ships, the poiice might consider bringing some people be.fore 'he f'ourt for ■ aiding and al)etting, was made l,y Mr, F. F„ Reid, S.M., in the New Plymouth Magistrate's Court today when he sentcnced' George Thomas Brett, to one month's hard labour for deserting from the Mahia in New Plymouth on June 8. Brett gave himself up to tlie poiice last night. The Mahia left ' New Zealand last week. "These cascs are becoming very frequent," said the Magistrate, "and 1 wonder whether the poiice would consider" bringing some people before the Court for aiding and abetting?" He pointed ont that Brett had been at large l'or some time whieh would have been impossible if someone had , not he.lped him.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1946, Page 8
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