SOLDIER'S SENTENCE.
PLEA FOR REVISION
(Press Assn) WELLINGTON, July 15. A plea for the return to New Zeaof a youthful member of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force who is serving a civil sentence of four years' imprisonment in Fiji, and also for a revision of his sentence, was contained in a petition to the House today presented by Mr H. Atmore on behalf of Hon. W. E. Barnard. The petitioner was the lad's mother.
The petition stated that tho young man was sentenced by a civil Court in Suva to four years' imprisonment for violence while intoxicated. He enlisted at the age of 17, giving his age as 21. and was 18 years when sentenced. Petitioner added that the boy's father was accidentally killed at Napier on December 26 on the day she received the news of her son's sentence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7
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141SOLDIER'S SENTENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 7
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