STRANDED SEAMAN
SALVATION ARMY TO TAKE CARE OF HIM
Glynallen Morgan, a seaman aged 25, who landed in Auckland recently with hardly a penny, is being taken under the wing of the Salvation Army. He will be provided with clothing and sent back to his people i*• Wanganui. Dishevelled and clad in white duck trousers that hac seen better days, Morgan pleaded not guilty to a charge of vagrancy this morning at the Police Court. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that the man was being brought in for his own protection. He was a New Zealander born but had left the country. Hp had stowed away on a ship to return and had been discharged when the vessel had arrived in the Dominion. No prosecution was then brought because Morgan was a good worker and a New Zealander born. Being destitute, the man had gone to the Sailors’ Home with what purported to be a letter from a clergyman who had an arrangement with the authorities at the home to send deserving cases to them. When the letter was aponed it was found to contain three sheets of blank paper. “He is likely to land in gaol at this rate,” remarked the sub-inspector. The case was adjourned for a week in order to allow the accused to take advantage of the offer to help hint made by Staff-Captain Holmes, of the Salvation Army.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 723, 24 July 1929, Page 11
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231STRANDED SEAMAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 723, 24 July 1929, Page 11
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