“RIDICULOUS ROT."
FIXES FOR NOT FILLING TN CENSUS PAPERS.
;i>er Pres® Association.) AUCKLAND, last, njght. ‘'Conscientious reasons,” laconically declared two middle-aged men, Harry Batten and Joseph Batten, of Edendale, who, came before Air Boynton, S,M,, to-day on a charge of having failed to fill in their census papers, “Ridiculous rot,” retorted the Magistrate with equal brevity, when it was explained that the men just refused to fill in the papers when asked to do so by the census subenumcrator, and that Joseph Batten had been fined (in default a month's imprisonment) on the occasion I of the 11)16 census for a similar attitude. Joseph Batten was fined £lO, in default one month’s imprisonment, and Harry Batten was fined £5, in default fourteen dayV imprisonment. ' a——————
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15543, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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125“RIDICULOUS ROT." Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15543, 11 June 1921, Page 7
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