FAILING TO ENROL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 8

FAILING TO ENROL.

YOUTH SENT TO GAOL.v fBT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] CmusTCHTjßcn, Monday.. This morning Harry Cooke, who was fined 40s and costs recently for having failed to register under the Defence Act, repeated the procedure of passive resistance he adopted when lie . was .fined some months ago, and declined to pay the amount demanded by the State for his breach of the Act. Cooke was arrested on warrant at his work, and was sent to Lyttelton to serve 21 days. The police have other warrants out for failure to pay fines imposed for breaches of the Defence Act. These will be executed as opportunity arises.

, SOCIALIST PARTY PROTESTS. tBT TELEGRAPH.—TRESS ASSOCIATION.! - Christchurch, Monday. The Christchurch branch of the Socialist party to-night passed a • most stronglyworded resolution protesting against the second imprisonment of the lad Harry Cooke for refusing to register under the Defence Act. 7 COULD NOT BE TOLERATED." [3T EELKCBAPH.—-PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wanganui, Monday. A young man named Ernest Henry McKay was charged in the Police Court this morning with having refused to serve in the territorial.-!, also with having incited others to absent themselves from drill. Defendant did not appear. . ■' . Evidence was given to the effect that defendant duly registered, but refused to fall in when ordered, and declared he would rather do 20 years' gaol than one hour's drill. The Magistrate said that, such a state of affairs could not be tolerated. As this was the first case of the kind hero he did .not wish to inflict the maximum penalty. No doubt the defendant had been influenced by pernicious literature that was being, circulated in the Dominion. Defendant was fined £1 on each offence, in default three clays' imprisonment on each charge.