THE DEFENCE ACT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 15 May 1912, Page 7

THE DEFENCE ACT.

MAGISTERIAL DECISION APPEALED AGAINST. fiY TEUEuaAVJI -fj»JS.SB ARBOOIATIOH. WELLINGTON, May 15. . Justice Cooper torday heard an aplpeal fisom the CJnowji .against the disjmissal fey Mr RiddfiU, S.M., <of the re<cent cases under the iPelence Act, Sfhen the Magistrate Ih^ld that proceed:»ngs against offenders foe taken under the regulations a.nd nat under sftetion SS. of the Defence .-Act, and further th#,t as personal service varied in character and was «jKfiad <jv«er the annual period the defeajants should at least hare had an ©pjjorturiity af- ? ' forded them during each ibisaining '"jof rendering the required service within '5 v The Jiid'ge remarked that Sf the -"iStrate was right the whole tacheme of the Act was destroyed, with wibich the Solicitor-General concurred, and added that the effect of the decision woul^ . also he absolutely subversive of all miliV tary discipltwe. In course of argument ' the' Judge said that the position, af the .^decision was upheld, would b© like ?. 3'fcomic opera. tefflr The case is proceediug.