FIRST DIVISION SHIRKER
LIVED ON BOAT FOR TWO
YEARS,
REMARKABLE AUCKLAND CASE
Press Association Telegram
, . AUCKLAND, May 6. A First Division reservist named. John Charles Orme was charged at the Police Court to-day with failiny to enrol.
The police stated that accused, with a married woman, who «as separated from her husband and had two children, had lived on a fisuing boat in the harbor for two years. They lived on the woman’s maint mauve money,supplemented, bv the proceeds of fishings He was dodging military service and avoided coming into the city, the woman doing any necessary business. Orme was on the roll as a Second Division reservist, Ula.ss D, the address being Waiheke Island, in the Gulf.
The Magistrate said had it not been that the need for men was so great, accused would have received a long term of imprisonment. Sentence of six months’ imprisonment was imposed, accused to be handed over to the military authorities at the expiration of the term.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4862, 7 May 1918, Page 6
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164FIRST DIVISION SHIRKER Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4862, 7 May 1918, Page 6
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