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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11447, 29 January 1918, Page 5

A unique excuse for evading military service was proffered by a reservist at Wellington, who was tried bv court-martial for disobedience of an order to attend medical examination, his plea being that lie was by law exempt from rendering personal service because his family in Scotland was paying feu duty, iho reservist was thus going back over centuries to the days of the feudal system for his plea, feu duty, according to Scots law, being the duty or annual rent paid, by the tenant of a fen, or a grunt of laud,for which the tenant p .ys money to his overlord instead of rendering personal military service.