FAILED TO REPORT
JEHOVAH WITNESS CASE (0.c.) HAMILTON, Friday An admission was made bv Leslie Raymond Franks, aged 32, before Mr. W. H. Freeman, S.M., at Hamilton to-day, that he had failed to report for military service. Senior-Sergeant McHugh said defendant was a clerk who had been with the Post and Telegraph Department for 16 years. Ho was a Jehovah Witness. Defendant said his appeal had been dismissed. He had been ordained as a minister. He was not a pacifist and did not desire to obstruct the war effort. Franks was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment, and was ordered to be detained in a defaulters' camp.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24217, 7 March 1942, Page 6
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