MILITARY DEFAULTERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 14

MILITARY DEFAULTERS.

FAILURE TO ATTEND DRILL. j SEVERAL YOUTHS FINED. " Boys who do noli attend drill deserve nil they get in the way of fines," said !Mr. F. K. Hunt,, S.M., in the Police. Court yesterday, when a number of youths carne before hi in charged with breaches of tho l)?fence Act. " I hero aro vcrv few excuses lor not attending drills. It is useless for boys to say they did not know when the drills were to be lield. The obligation is on them lo find out. Future offences will be met with heavier fines."

Referring to F. White, charged with failing to attend drill. Captain .1. G. (J. ,Wales, representing the Uelence Department, said the boy would not go near drill. Ho entertained a grievance, because ho was not posted to an artillery unit. [Defendant having been fined before for the same offence the magistrate imposed fine oi £.5, with costs. Fines of £2, with costs, were imposed on H. Baldwin arid 11. J. V. Neilson, also charged with failing to attend drill, while F. Coleman was fined £l, with costs. .Less serious views of the offences of 15. •f. McKean and G. A. Putland were taken oy the Defenct Department, and both were ordered to pav costs. 15. V. Bushel I was convicted and discharged, Captain Wales saving that he was now attending drill regularly. * What, do you mean coming hero wlwri A W that?". Bait , the mi * istratn ylion A. Waugh came forward, charged with fading to register for service. "You would not go to a theatre with "your shirt open all the way down." Wauidi sa d ho did not know that ho was required to register. Ho was a member of tho Bov Scouts and since the summons was Wd ho had registered. 110 was ordered to T'ay costs. S. w. Hocy was also ordered to pay costs for failing to deliver his equipment, uls On tho grounds that military training Kwdon K » n r< ? h ß ious R. L" > iiowoon, B. A. Davies and U it T).. v ;„ c •V granted exemption fJom iain^T