REFUSING THE OATH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10301, 23 February 1912, Page 5

REFUSING THE OATH.

Per Press Association, Qhtistcbnrch, Febrnar? 23 Several batches of y cut-bo been betoie the Magistrate's Court lately charged with failure to the oa*h nndot t'r?e Dafesce Ant. Iq the case of Tboeiss Nnttall to-day r>fandaat raised tno poins that be "Kd a religions objection ac,<> vvas conseanectly exempted. He was a B&ptiufc. The eviitetice of Kev. A. Agar and Ms O E. N Msckie. a deaooc of the Baptist Church, was that the cburoh allowed private interpretation of she Blew Taet-uiantu and it tested with the indivi-inal whether bis permitted i&iJifcarv nesvioe or not *la another ores defendant was a nieiabar of the Spiritualist Obaroli. jEdgraenc was reserved in both cases Fisss were laapoEsd in moss cases, to b* reduced If defendants complied with 6bs law within a week.