A "SOUVENIR"
MASTHEAD WIND VANE
MAN'S MIDNIGHT RAID
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NEW PLYMOUTH, January 2,
A midnight adventure on board the German barque Kommodore Johnsen in search of a souvenir led to the appearance of Wilfred Sefton Emmett, aged 27, of Wanganui, in the Magistrate's Court, New Plymouth, today. The cutting adrift *of a wind vane at the top of the mizzen mast .cost him a fine of £1 for mischief, and he was ordered to pay the North German Lloyd Shipping Company £2, the cost of the damage. For being found drunk on the wharf he was convicted and discharged.
A noise at the top of the* mast at midnight drew the' attention of officers, according to the evidence, and a. man was sent aloft. Emmett refused to descend till the police were called. The master, Captain Clausen, was concerned because he feared it would be thought his cadets were responsible for the disturbance.
"I did not intend any insult," said Emmett to the Bench, "but merely wanted a souvenir."
"If it had not been the festive season the penalty would have been greater," said Mr. W. C. Weston, J.P. "You should have been doubly careful, because it was a visiting German ship that we are all pleased .to have here."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 13
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212A "SOUVENIR" Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 13
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