WAY OF AN EAGLE
DECIDED TO LEAVE SHIP 14 DAYS’ GAOL FOR SEAMAN The way of an eagle certainly does not lie over the ocean, and realising this, a seaman from the lonic decided last October to become a “dry land sailor/’ John Eagle, a seaman aged 23, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to deserting from the lonic at Wellington on October- 27. A representative of the Sliaw, Savin and Albion Company said that the ship was on tire way back to England where Eagle had been signed on. It had been necessary to engage another man in Wellington to take his place. Eagle was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 15
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113WAY OF AN EAGLE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 15
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