DEFAULTER REMANDED
Uncertainty Over New , Regulations
Though he pleaded guilty in tue Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, to a charge of failing to report for military service, Robert Duncan William McCallum was remanded by Mr. Luxford, S.M., for a week so that the effect on him of the latest amendment to the National Service Emergency Regulations could be ascertained. . . Mr. H. E.. Parry, who appeared tor McCallum, said he was a conscientious objector whose appeal against military service had been dismissed. Conscience was extremely difficult to judge and in New Zealand there was no appeal from the Armed Forces Appeal Boards. Defendant maintained that he honestly believed war was wrong, and was prepared to take the consequences of his action. Upon the magistrate asking what the effect of the new regulations would be an Army sergeant said instructions _ for the prosecution to proceed had been given and they had not been altered since the Government’s intention to amend the regulations had been announced. The magistrate remarked that he did not want to imprison a man if there was to be a change in policy or in the law.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 12
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187DEFAULTER REMANDED Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 12
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