CHARGE OF DESERTION.
ARREST NEAR TUAKAU.
LIVING ON ISLAND IN RIVER.
A single man named Ernest Alfred Mouldy, aged 27, was arrested near Tuakau, on Sunday on a charge of desertion from camn. Mouldy, it is stated, originally evaded arrest at Wanganui, but was apprehended in Auckland and placed in the CI camp. He is alleged to have left the camp without leave, and eventually took up his abode in a tent on an island in the Waikato River, six miles below Tuakau. He was seen by Maoris when he crossed the river in a canoe to obtain food at Buckland. When Constables Taylor, of Tuakau. and Walfendale, of Pukekohe, visited the island, they found Mouldy resting in his tent. He made no resistance, out expressed s-trong objections to military service.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16971, 3 October 1918, Page 4
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131CHARGE OF DESERTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16971, 3 October 1918, Page 4
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