MILITARY OBJECTORS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10

MILITARY OBJECTORS

TWO DEPRIVED OF CIVHj

RIGHTS

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND," 18th December.

Five applications were received for exemption from drill, and three were granted on condition that the applicants did alternative training at the Presbyterian Orphanage, by Mr. Cutten, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. "We will not do alternative service," said John N. and Neil N. M'Dougall, the remaining'l two applicants.

The Magistrate: "Very well, your applications will be refused. That is quite easy. You may go."

Captain Wales asked Mr. Cutten to deprive the offender of his civil rights when Walter Leslie Harlick was charged with failing to attend drill.

"He has been fined four times before, but still stays away," said Captain Wales. "Previously he was fined £5 every year, and he regarded that as the annual cost of his 'training. 1 Now we are using a Lewis gun on him, and he's finding it a bit expensive.l' Harlick was deprived of his civil rights fdi a period of six years.