“A REIGN OF TERROR.”
OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOUR BY THREE SEAMEN. Auckland, Sept. 26. “There lias been a reign of-terror on the Karamea all the way from London to Auckland,” said ChiefDetective McMahon, when outlining a case in which three men from the vessel were charged in the Police Court with having embezzled twentyelectric globes, worth £6, the property of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company. “Throughout the entire voyage,” said the chief-detective,, “these men have been breaking lamps and boiler gauges, thus threatening the safety of the ship, and throwing things overboard, and behaving generally in a most outrageous fashion. On arrival at Auckland they 7 took twenty electric globes fr6m various clusters of lights, ami deliberately smashed them on the wharf. The captain asked them if they had any complaints, but they refused to give any information, and constituted themselves a secret society. They have become so unbearable, and made (liemselves so disliked, that the captain no longer desires their presence on the ship,” The accused declined to make any explanation from the box. “Sabotage such as this must be stopped,” said the magistrate. “Each man will be ordered to pay £2 for the damage he has done, ami partly as punishment and partly as a warning to others, will he sentenced to throe weeks’ imprisonment with hard la hour.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2034, 27 September 1919, Page 3
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