NAVAL DEFAULTER

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3784, 30 July 1932, Page 5

NAVAL DEFAULTER

FAILED TO ATTEND DRILL VOLUNTEER RESERVIST (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, J ulv 29. The first case of a mail failing to attend the drill parades call'd by tile Canterbury Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve wa 3 heard to-day when the Magistrate, Mr E. D. Mosley, after hearing the evidence, adjourned the case for three months to enable defendant. William Leonard Gobbe. to prove that lie wag willing to abide by his contract. The prosecutipg petty officer said that when the men made tlie contract to join rile division they were issued with a ki t and equipment valued at £lO. It was a serious matter to default from parades. a*» the money spent o a the kit was practically wasted. Tlie Magistrate pointed out tlmt defendant was liable to three months’ iniprh umic-'t ih- a line of £2O.