PROBATION GRANTED
DESERTION FROM SHIP
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day.
A plea of guilty to a charge of deserting the steamer Tonganro at Auckland on February 14, was en- . tered in the Police Court yesterday by John Thomas Dryden Richardson, aged 29, described as the second cook and baker. . ■ ■ . , The police said that Richardson had been working in the Rotorua district where he. was arrested on Monday, The magistrate, Mr. F. H. Levien, said that in view of the . fact that Richardson had settled down, he would convict and admit him to probation for 12 months. The magistrate added that it was not the practice to grant probation to every man so charged. “You must react to the leniency shown you. The records of this court show that deserters are not always what they should be.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 16
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137PROBATION GRANTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20054, 28 September 1939, Page 16
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