MILITARY DEFAULTERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 6

MILITARY DEFAULTERS

ATTITUDE OF MAGISTRATE SHORT TERM OF IMPRISONMENT ; i Wellington, This Day. i I IBs attitude to military defaulters e | was stated by Mr Stout, S.M.. in the i .Magistrate’s Court to-day. "So that others may know tire attitude the Court 1 j v. ill take up.” Mr Stout said that when ;■ defaulters’ detention came into force , the difficulty would face the court 1 j whether to give a short term of imI, prisonment in order that defendants l> might perhaps see the error of their e! ways and volunteer for military ser- < vice, or whether to impose defaulters’ detention if defendants failed to render ; tent ion for years because no one knew , how long the war would last. “So far •) as this court is concerned it intends f .a the first offence to inflict a short . term of imprisonment to let you think l 1 it over. If you come before the Court again it will be the Court’s duty to r send you to defaulters’ detention when t that is properly constituted.” j Four men were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for failure to .. report for military service and three were fined £5 for failure to enrol.— J P.A.