LIABILITY FOR SERVICE
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
At the Magistrate's Court to-day Cahill was charged imder the Military Service Act with failing to enrol. For the defendant it was urged that it was doubtful whether he was bound to enrol, as he -was a full-blooded Australian aboriginal. The Magistrate hold that defendant was a natural-born British subject and liable under tl\e Act. Defendant was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called on, the warrant to be suspended provided he enrolled.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 7
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85LIABILITY FOR SERVICE Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 7
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