FAILURE TO OBEY ORDER
SIX WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., Nov. 24. Brought before the Magistrate’s Court, under military escort, George Ayson Watts, formerly a lorry driver at Wanganui, was sentenced to six weeks’ gaol, on a charge of failing to obey an order to draw battledress from the quartermaster’s store at Palmerston North camp. Watts pleaded not guilty and said that his earlier appeal on conscientious grounds had been dismissed. He was interested in Jehovah’s Witnesses. He had been declared unfit for overseas service. Watts added that it was against the laws of. the Bible to have anything to do with the armed forces. To do so would be helping to kill. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., said that he could not override a decision of the Appeal Board.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23495, 25 November 1941, Page 10
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