DEFENCE ACT
FAILING TO RENDER SERVICE. , [VZ XSUEQSAPH — PBESB ASSOCIATION.] OAMARU, This Day. C. Muncey waa fined £1, with costs (7s), at the Magistrate's Court for failing to render personal service. The case was the first under the Defence Act in I Oamaru. , PALMERSTON N., This Day. A number of youths appeared in Court to-day on charges of failure to comply with the conditions of the Defence Act. One youth gave as an excuse for not ; attending camp that his mother was dying. He was convicted and discharged. Another youth, for failing to attend a swearing-in parade, was fined .£l, with costs; and a third, who had been enrolled but had failed to cany out any personal service during the whole year and had never presented himself at parades or' camp, and had openly boasted that he would not comply with the Act, was fined £3, and' ordered to pay coats (£2 9s).
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 7
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153DEFENCE ACT Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1912, Page 7
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