Arthur Scutt 1928-1996

[Thursday 08 June 1950, Hull Daily Mail, East Riding of Yorkshire. SMOKING ON DOCKS WARNING AT GOOLE. THE AUTHORITIES are very concerned about the increase in smoking on Goole docks, "said Supt. A. R. Moxon, at Goole, when Joseph Bean, seaman, of Middlesbrough, was fined 20/- for smoking on his ship. Arthur Scutt, a Goole dock labourer, was fined 25/- for smoking while assisting to unload a cargo of strawboards from the M.V. Canada, and Pc. Roe said that on being told he would be reported. Scutt replied. "I cant say anything. I know I should not do it." The chairman, Mrs Macdonald Brown, warned that in future the penalty would be higher because of the danger of the offence.] [A S - 67yr.]