MILITARY DEFAULTER
REFUSAL TO OBEY ORDERS SIX WEEKS' IMPRISONMENT (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., Nov. 24. Brought before the Magistrate's Court by military escort to-day.. Georgs Ayson Watts, formerly a lorry driver, of Wanganui, was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment on a charge of failing to obey an order to draw battledress from the quartermaster's store at PaJmerston North camp. The defendant pleaded not guilty. He said his earlier appeal on conscientious grounds had been dismissed. He was interested in Jehovah's Witnesses, and had been declared unfit for overseas service. The defendant added that it was against the laws of the Bible to have anything to do with armed forces. To do so would be -helping to kill. Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., said he could not over-ride the Appeal Board.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 2
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