GAOL FOR DEFAULTERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 303, 23 December 1941, Page 3

GAOL FOR DEFAULTERS

Orders that they be detained in defaulters' camp were made by Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the case of eight men who came before him at a special sitting of the Police Court yesterday afternoon.

Three brothers, Horace Howard Chilvers, Ronald Albert Chilvers and Cyril Edgar Chilvers, pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to report at the Drill Hall for military service. Each stated he believed in the brotherhood of man and held it was wrong to take human life. They did not belong to any religious denomination. They were each sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by detention in a defaulters' camp.

"I don't mind home defence, but I won't go overseas. I'll do my bit if this country is attacked," said Albert James Cant, who pleaded guilty to a charge of refusing to obey an order to don battle dress in Papakura camp.

"To talk like that is just insincere nonsense," remarked the magistrate, in sentencing Cant to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.

In admitting that he refused to obey the order to don battle dress, Conrad John Welson said he considered it his duty to serve on the hoipe front. Welson was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, to be followed by detention in a defaulters' camp.

Similarly charged, Ndrman Leonard Chisholm told the magistrate he had consistently refused to have anything to do with the military machine. Chisholm and Charles Edward Bickers, Eric Power and Archibald Lauder, who were also charged with failing to take battle dress, Were each sentenced to detention in •-defaulters' camp.

In three other cases, when the defendants failed to appear, the magistrate ordered that warrants for their arrest be issued and executed immediately.