A SHIPPING CASE.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, last night. The master of the coastal vessel Toroa was before the Stipendiary Magistrate at the Police Court to answer a somewhat singular charge, viz., that on or about December 11 last, at Auckland, he, being the master of a foreign going ship going to sea from the port of Auckland, did fraudulently engage one Alfred Harris, duly qualified engineer, to serve on the said ship for the purpose only of enablin'* the said ship to clear and not for the purpose of the whole voyage. The defendant pleaded guilty. It was stated the case in question was the first one laid under section 28, of sub-section 3, of Shipping and Seamens’ Act. 1877. His Worship* imposed a fine of .£lO and costs. e
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 8 February 1902, Page 2
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131A SHIPPING CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 8 February 1902, Page 2
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