THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
- ANOTHER FLAW IN THE DEFENCE ACT. [by telegraph—per press association ] AUCKLAND, This Day. A flaw in the Defence Act has been discovered in connection with the prosecution of a senior cadet named Pugh, charged with refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Defendant was a senior cadet, but having attained the age of eighteen years, was, under compulsion by the Act, drafted in the prescribed manner through the general training section into the territorial forces. In giving a ruling on the point raised by counsel, Mr Fraser, S.M # , said he was unable to find anything in the Act requiring defendant to take the oath of allegiance on being drafted into the general training section. He was certainly not a member of the Defence Force as defined by the Act. The general training section and the territorial forces were two entirely different bodies. It was a matter of some importance and he would be glad if the Defence Department would decide to take it to the Supreme Court, though personally ho had no doubt about it t The case was dismissed. -
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 October 1912, Page 5
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