DEFAULTERS JAILED
Five Men Before Court Five men who have been called up for military service and have failed to report were sentenced to a month s imprisonment by Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. They were Noel Bernasconi, motor mechanic, Harvey Imandt, cutter, Norman Inwood, carpenter, Theodore Charles Nightingall, photographer, and William Baird Stewart, insurance employee.
Imandt said he was of German descent and he considered it was not his business to report. There was no court or board to deal with a case *’ich as bis. Persons of German ext ruction were not wanted In the Army. The magistrate replied that if lie bad tried the Army he would probably have been sent out of it. Inwood, who was said to have appealed on the ground of undue hardship, the appeal being dismissed, said lie hud volunteered two days after the outbreak of war and was not accepted. Since then he had married, and he had two dependants.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 44, 15 November 1941, Page 5
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