GAVE HIMSELF UP
DISILLUSIONED SEAMAN LEFT SHIP WITHOUT LEAVE Thomas Norman Wright expected to find the streets of New Zealand paved with gold. He left his ship to test his theory and, when disillusioned, gave himself up to the police. Wright, aged 45, was charged at the Police Court this morning with absenting himself without leave from the ship Northumberland. He pleaded guilty. In the opinion of Sub-Inspector McCarthy the man was deserving of no sympathy. He had left the ship intending to stay in New Zealand but was unable to find work se he had given himself up to the wharf police expecting that the shipping company would have to find him a ship. A warrant had been out for his arrest since January 10, as he had left the ship on January 5. Wright was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 694, 20 June 1929, Page 1
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