AN ORDER DISOBEYED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 2

AN ORDER DISOBEYED

PROMISE SOON BROKEN DEFAULTER IMPRISONED Four days after he had been released from prison on an undertaking that he would obey the rules of the detention camp, Allan John Yates, military defaulter, declined to carry out an order and on the application of the detention authorities he was committed to prison for a third term by Mr, S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Rotorua Police Court. Detective-Sergeant A. J White said Yates was first committed to a defaulters’ camp in February, 1942. His record was not satisfactory, and on May 10, 1944, he was _ to gaol for three months for disobedience of an order. In the following September he was transferred to prison permanently. Fie made application to be returned to camp and on October 10 last was released by Ministerial order on his giving an assurance that he would carry out instructions. The camp supervisor at Strathmore, Mr. C. L. Christensen, gave evidence that defendant had been found lying on his bed at 9.45 a.m. last Sunday. He did not plead illness, but refused to get up. He was placed in close confinement. Yates was given another opportunity to reconsider his attitude, but he declined to give any assurance that he would carry out camp orders. In a long statement defendant denied that he had undertaken to obey all regulations if he were released from prison. The magistrate: In other words, you gave an undertaking with a mental reservation. That is plain dishonesty. The order for the return of Yates to prison was made.