SHIPMASTER FINED
BREACH OF SEAMEN'S AOT, (By TeieEranh— Preof Assootetton 1 Dunedin, January 12. In the Police Court this morning Alfred John Croft, master of the Victoria, was fined £2 and costs for a breach of the Shipping and Seamen's Act, 1908, he'having carried a seaman on board without having entered into an agreement with him in accordance with the Act. Defendant admitted the breaoh under mitigating circumstances. He stated that arrangements had been made for the seaman to sign on at the company's offices, but the man failed to put in an' appearance, and _ when he came aboard it was just on sailing time. Later, when asked to sign articles, he refnsed. Mr. Burton, S.M. commented that it was generally admitted that when a seaman didn't sign on ashore he would refuse to do so later.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 7
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137SHIPMASTER FINED Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 7
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