DESERTING SEAMEN FINED
THREE CAUGHT IN WELLINGTON Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Pleas of guilty were entered by two seamen, Bernard Holmes, aged 21 and Gordon Notley, aged 24, when charged at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with deserting from the Northumberland at Wellington. Each was ordered to pay the expenses incurred, £2 10s, in default seven days’ imprisonment. Another seaman, Robert Charles Wilkins, aged 25, admitted deserting from the Ruapehu at Wellington and stowing away on board the Kaitoa at Auckland. Since leaving the Ruapehu, said Sub-Inspector Lopdell, Wilkins had been working on the coast. He stowed away in the Kaitoa, and was arrested on the arrival of the ship in Wellington yesterday. On the first charge W’ilkms was ordered to pay costs, £2 10s, in default seven days’ imprisonment, and oh the second he was fined £5, in default 14 days’ gaol.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19300430.2.181
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
142DESERTING SEAMEN FINED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in