SHIP DESERTER’S RUSE
GOODS PUT OVER SIDE SENTENCE POSTPONED (Por Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, tills day. “He lowered all his beLongings, including a radio set and a camera, over the side of the ship to the wharf and then went to the railway and consigned them to Stratford,” said Senior-Sergeant Turner, in the Police Court to-day, when explaining the circumstances of desertion by Albert Arthur Monck, aged 19, from the Raranga at Wellington on June 22. He also had in his possession a bunch of 33 keys. In entering a conviction, the magistrate postponed sentence. “I don’t like the look of that bundle of keys,” ne said. Two other deserters also arrested in south Taranaki were under age and were dealt with in the Juvenile Court. One was fined £5 as the price of .admission to the .country and his present employer immediately paid this and took the boy back to his farm. The other boy expressed a wish to go back to England and he will be returned when a ship is available.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19999, 26 July 1939, Page 7
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174SHIP DESERTER’S RUSE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19999, 26 July 1939, Page 7
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