_The Evening Post_, 21 September 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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The two #stowaways on the Rotorua, who were arrested by Constable Johnston when they were trying to steal ashore under cover of night, appeared for sentence before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Sub-Inspector Cummings said that the accused Frank White, 23 years of age, and George French, 19 years, were #deserters from the American Navy, but the Government of this country, according to the American Consul, did not want to have anything to do with them. Neither of them were wanted in the Dominion. If they could be sent back to America on the Rotorua arrangements could be made by the Consul to have them arrested on their arrival. A remand for another week was granted to enable further inquiries to be made.
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