FAILING TO ENROL.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 21. “You are liable under the regulations to a penalty of up to a £IOO fine, or 12 months’ imprisonment, but as it is the first case of the kind 1 intend to inflict ;• fine, but not a .light fine, because I. consider it a serious offence.” said Mr J. L. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, when Edward Herbert Headfield, single, aged 30, a bootmaker, was charged with failing to enrol for national service. Headfield pleaded guilty. There had been ample publication in the Press and by Ministerial statements about defendant’s duty, said the Magistrate in imposing a fine of £lO, v-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 96, 22 March 1941, Page 7
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111FAILING TO ENROL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 96, 22 March 1941, Page 7
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