INTERPROVINCIAL.
X » i (Per Press Association.) f WELLINGTON, last night. 1 The Post Office Savings Bank lecurn I for January .shows the deposits to be - 1 £i, 296,3^0; exceeding . the withdrawals by £352,118. The deposits lor January. 1915, totalled £1,087,526 and the withdrawals £810,891. Major-General R. H. Da-vies, the Xew Zealand officer who has been loaned to the Imperial authorities, relinquished his rang and appointment on the New Zealand- staff corps on being transferred to the Imperial army as from February, ) 1915. ' ( WANGANUI,) last night. j •Pertinent comments were made by Mr s Justice Edwards m the Supreme Court > to-day vtfien iseveral prisoners came up " for sentenoe. It was 'suggesettl m two . instances that the prisoners should be j allowed to enlist to fight for the oouhtry. s "I am not one of those who think legions Composed of criminals should be . sent to fight the enemy," said His Honor, -y "Germany may have formed regiments of , them biit T hope m New Zealand we will not have to do so. My position is not to set prisoners at large to fight f or tjieiy j country, but to deal with them according to law." "*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 5
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195INTERPROVINCIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14236, 2 March 1917, Page 5
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