BOY GOES TO GAOL.
RATHER THAN' PAT .FKfi.
LEAGUE AGAINST RE.GISrEIATioN.
fßy Telegrapa —Press AssbfclatJoiu)
WELUXGTOX, this "day. Mr Cornish, father of ~&e~ boy-recently fined £4_and costs for failing -to- register under the Defence Act,* informs -1 the "Press" that-the boy had t>een? arrested, and would ha\'e to serve 21 days in Mr Cornish said his son Tvas ofily.bna oul of 13,000-who had ;,nbt been? registered, A league had, been formed inrßroofcivn, and all the youths'in pfe'paree to 50 to gaol rather the laiv.- Mr Cornish_say3. _Ms "J,on r s workmates collected the amount .bfcthe fine, Jiiit the lad- refused -tp\aHow/it to be paid, and had gone to gaol for'prin» ciple. It may be mentioned one& again ■ that going to gaol does not relieve- offenders from the necessity of registering,V'and they can.be fined, ad lib. till.they do register. - ;' v --~
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Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 167, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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