FAILED TO REGISTER
THE FIRST CASE. (By Telegraph.—.Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this .day. The first case brought under the Defence Act of failing to register as a territorial under the universal obligation to be trained, came before the Court to-day. The defendant, -who pleaded guilty, said he bad passed his eighteenth year, and the reason he had not joined was because of his trade. He is a cabinetmaker. The magistrate said that was not the slightest excuse. He -would adjourn the caee until Tuesday. If defendant registered before thatv date probaibly he would not inflict any penalty, 'but he wanted defendant and cfthera like him to distinctly understand that 'lie VFcrald inflict fe heavy jxatilty :ia fetiate,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 154, 30 June 1911, Page 5
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