SHIP’S MATE COMPLAINS
METHODS OF A NORWEGIAN | 6 CAPTAIN. (A tint rattan Press A ssociut ion.) SYDNEY, March 17. Allegations that for a small offence at Papeete he was placed in irons f° r twenty-four hours and imprisoned in a cabin :or six weeks until the ship arrived at Newcastle to-day. 'were made by Mr Sonde, second mate of the Norwegian steamer June. To the Vice Consul for Norway, who is conducting an inquiry, Stmde stated that he took a bottle of wine from a hag near the captain’s cabin. When the captain arrived on hoard, he ordered the whole crew into the hunker hatch, herding them with a revolver. Later Sundc was locked in a cabin with rusty handcuffs on his wrists. Captain Hannevig’s version of tile affair is that when he arrived on hoard he found that there had been almost a riot. The* crew had stolen a quantity of liquor and were drunk. “1 held them up with a revolver,” lie added, “and armed all the officers with batons. Sunde threatened me with his fists.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 3
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178SHIP’S MATE COMPLAINS Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1931, Page 3
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