FAILED TO REGISTER
IN THE GENERAL RESERVE FIRST CASE OF KIND IN DOMINION [United Press Association] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. In the first case of its kind in the Dominion Ernest Charles John Storer. labourer, aged 26 years, was charged with failure to register in Class 1 of th*. General Reserve, thus missing the ballots for nome and overseas service Detective-Sergeant McClung said that SUrer when questioned admitted he haci failed to register with the General Reserve. /Storer also appeared for sentence on ch.irges of failing to account for £SO. Explaining Storer’s failure to register counsel said it was due to his reluctance to eturn to his employer to get his levy book The Magistrate, Mr Levvey. S M., refused counsel’s plea to allow Storer to take uo military service and sentenced him to four months’ gaol on the major charge of failing to account for £SO •rnd convicted and discharged him on the other.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 3 December 1940, Page 5
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