ILL-CONSIDERED LEVITY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1115, 1 May 1911, Page 6

ILL-CONSIDERED LEVITY.

AND 'AN AFREST. A Wellington youth who has a penchant for practical joking had an experience the other day which slipuld at least cause him to bonder over his future jokes before perpetrating them. Being of tho eligible ago for military training, he procured a registration form and filled it in, but not with tho seriousnees worthy of the. duty of. citizenship. To the question as to his; employment, lio replied that ho was in "Iwo-un school," and to the query whether or not he had a horse, he replied that he had—a wuoden rocking-horse, which he kept at home! Ho then signed the paper, and sent it in. Unfortunately, the area officer of his district—this occurred in Wellington, by tho way—could not seo the joke, and took the document along to tho Polico Station, and asked that tho person wlio had so flouted tho Defence Department should bo arrested. Tho polico officials demurred, and said it was only a joke, but tho area officer was insistent—had the man not plainly stated that he was in a "two-up school" ? He should be arrested either for frequenting a gambling place, or for making out a false declaration. So the man was arrested, taken to the Polico Station, and given a thoroughly good fright. There was no prosecution, but, for the information of other jokers, this escape is not to be taken as a precedent, it is stated.