MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 278, 18 August 1921, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

COAL MINER AS A STOWAWAY. Two Justices of the Peace, Messrs. I. Salek and J. B. Teasdale, presided' over a sitting of the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. William Anderson pleaded guilty to stowing away on the Tahiti on her last trip to San Francisco. On the arrival of the steamer at Tahiti, Anderson and two others (Duncan M'Gregor and Thomas Shell) were arrested and held in custody, and were placed on board the s.s Marama on her return trip from San Francisco, reaching Wellington on Tuesday. Anderson said he was a coal miner, and had been in New Zealand for eight years. He could get no work on the West Coast of the South Island, where all the mines wore fully manned, go he tried to get out of the country. Anderson, who had no money, was sentenced to forty-eight hours' imprisonment. M'Gregor and Sheil were charged with leaving New Zealand without being in possession of passports, and were remanded until this morning. I William James Gillham was remanded until to-day on a charge of having stolen £1 in money, the property, of Maritana Williams. Bail was allowed in one surety of £lO. Frank Herbert Brett was charged that between June 25 and July 25 he obtained board to the value of £9 from Marion Webb by falsely representing that he was employed by the Fox Film Company. The case being beyond the jurisdiction of tho Justices of the Peace, the accused was remanded until thia morning..