ABSENCE FROM DRILL.
EXCUSES AMUSE MAGISTRATE. [BT TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HrjNTLT, Friday. No fewer than IT senior cadets and members of the territorial force appeared to answer charges preferred against them for failure to attend parades. Tn all the cases except one, which was adjourned for a month, fines ranging from 5s to £5, with Court costs, were inflicted. The excuses given appeared to amuse the magistrate, who remarked that the Hunlly youths were not at all ingenious. Their excuses were very flimsy, while they appeared to consider him very simple. One defaulting territorial stated that he was not the possessor of a uniform, and objected to drill in a shed with an earthen, floor in his Sunday clothes; while the leisure of another was 60 occupied with tennis and football that he could not allow drill to interfere with his duty to the various clubs with which he was 'connected. The magistrate told him that tennis, unfortunately, did not teach him to shoot straight. Mr. Raw son advised another to change his sister's " night out" to some other evening, so that he might perform the duties which the law imposed upon him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15563, 21 March 1914, Page 7
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