O.H.M.S. statement “not correct”
(N.Z. Press Association) i WELLINGTON, Nov. 15. A comment that Geoffrey Woolford, aged 26, a school teacher, had been gaoled for three months for failing to attend a military camp was not correct, the deputy Secretary of Justice (Mr B. J. Cameron) said yesterday. He was commenting on a reported statement by Mr M. Murphy, the national coordinator of the Organisation to Halt Military Service. Mr Murphy is one of a group of 10 persons, including a Labour member of Parliament, who this week formed a committee to coordinate opposition to the gaoling of persons who refuse to comply with the National Military Service Act. Mr Cameron said he understood that Woolford was originally fined for failing to attend military service camps, and refused to pay the fine. Woolford had been sentenced to periodic detention, but failed to attend periodic detention. “He was imprisoned for that, not directly for failing
Ito attend camps,” Mr (Cameron said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33075, 16 November 1972, Page 4
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