MILITARY DEFAULTERS.
CHRISTOHUIICH, January 11. Sentence was promulgated today in the pases of Privates George Deane and Herbert Edward Granger, who had pleaded amity beforo a district court-martial yesterday. Deane was charged with having ftbsonted himself without leave and with having failed to connect with his reinforcement draft at Ashburton on April 29. 1918. Ho was sentenced to 15 months' £ard labour. Granger was sentenced to a similar term of imprisonment. He had been charged with disobedienoo of the law-
ful command of bis superior officer and with failing to parade for medical examination when ordered to do so at Timaru on August 14 1917. CHRISTCHU'RCH, January 13. Albert Mateland M'Lachlan, found guilty by court' martial of disobeying the command of his superior officer to appear for medical examination at Timaru, was sentenced to two years' hard labour. The accused pleaded that he did not know he was called in the ballot, but the evidence showed that in his effort to evade tbo police he gave a false name and produced another man's C2 certificate.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3383, 15 January 1919, Page 44
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175MILITARY DEFAULTERS. Otago Witness, Issue 3383, 15 January 1919, Page 44
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