FAILURE TO REGISTER
LABOURER ESCAPED BALLOTS FIRST PROSECUTION OF KIND [BY TELEGRAPH —PRKSS ASSOCIATION*] CIIRISTCRURCII, Tuesday Tu the first case of its kind in the Dominion, Ernest Charles John Storer, a labourer, aged 26, was charged with failure to register in Class I. of the General Reserve, thus missing the ballots for homo and overseas service. Detective-Sergeant McClung said Storer. when questioned, admitted that he had failed to regisotr with the General Reserve. Storer also appeared for sentence on charges of failing to account for £oo. Explaining Storer's failure to register, his counsel said it was due to his reluctance to return to his employer to get his levy book. Mr. E. C. Levvoy, S.M., refused counsel's plea to allow Storer to take up military service, and sentenced him to four months' gaol on the major charge of failing to account for £.50 and convicted and discharged him on the other.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 10
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