WHARF PASSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 120, 23 May 1941, Page 9

WHARF PASSES

IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

"Waterside workers and all those who have passes have got to treat them as very important documents for reasons I don't need to emphasise/ said Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M.. in the Magistrate's Court today to James Sharp, a waterside worker, who pleaded guilty to deceiving a constable by producing, in order to gain entrance to the wharf, a pass issued to another person.

"These documents," said the Magis trate, "are of the utmost importance. and those who are privileged to have them must co-operate with the police and keep them in their possession. If there is any loss it must be reported at once. This business of taking another man's pass has got to stop."

It was stated that Sharp, who had been working on a ship, had his own pass in his coat in the hold, but had Shown another to the constable. He said that he noticed a pass sticking in some woodwork and had used that.

Sharp stated the pass was evidently one that had been lost and he had used it only to save himself from having to go down into the ship. He had acted on the spur of the moment.

The Magistrate said that recently a man had been sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment for deceiving a constable, but in Sharp's case the circumstances were somewhat different. A fine of £2 and costs was imposed.