DESERTING SEAMEN
PROBLEM FOR DOMINION COURTS. WELLINGTON MAGISTRATE’S OBSERVATIONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “These cases are becoming increasingly numerous and increasingly difficult. The number of seamen who are deserting from overseas ships is very great and invariably they are brought before the Court. Then we are faced with this problem—the deserting seaman is determined to make a start in New Zealand. If the Courts are going to enforce the law, the only way to deal with them is by imprisonment. Thus a person starting life in the dominion starts it with a sentence of imprisonment. The proper course, which was adopted by the Courts for many years when the Courts had the power was to order the deserting seaman to return to his ship or to the country from which he sailed on articles.' The above remarks were made by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M.; in a case of the kind today, in which the accused was convicted and a fine imposed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 8
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164DESERTING SEAMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1938, Page 8
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