LIFE IN THE ARMY
SOLDIERS’ COMPLAINT TO MAGISTRATE (P.A.) WANGANUI, November 23. The assertion that they broke camp and resorted to crime because they were “fed up” with the monotony of Army life, was made when, having pleaded guilty in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court today to seven charges of breaking and entering by night and theft, Ivan Evans, Stanley Thomas Port, and James Ernest Arthur Ward, soldiers, were committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence. Evans, when asked If he had anything to say In answer to the charges, replied that he had committed the offences because of the Army. He wanted to get overseas, as he was tired of doing the same thing over and over again in camp. He had been kept in detention with handcuffs on all the time, even to eat, make his bed, and sleep. He would like to be transferred to some camp from where he could be sent overseas. Port said that he was fed up with the monotony of the camp, and unless he could join the overseas forces he did not want anything to da with territorial camps in New Zealand. He was willing to go overseas. Ward said the same. If he had to go back to the same training, he added, he knew that he would end in the same way as at present.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23803, 24 November 1942, Page 6
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