MILITARY DEFAULTERS
COURT’S ATTITUDE DEFINED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 24. His attitude to military defaulters was stated by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today “sq that others may know the attitude the Court will take up.” Mr Stout said that when defaulters’ detention came into force a difficulty would face the Court whether to give a short term of imprisonment in order that defendants might perhaps see the error of their ways and volunteer for military service, or whether to impose defaulters’ detention. If the defendants failed to give service the latter might mean detention for years because none knew how long the war would last. “So far as this Court is concerned it intends in the first offence to inflict a short term of imprisonment to let you think it over and, if you come before the Court again it will be the Court’s duty to send you to defaulters’ detention when that is properly constituted,” said the Magistrate. Four men were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for failure to report for military service. Three were fined £5 for failure to enrol.
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Southland Times, Issue 24575, 25 October 1941, Page 8
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186MILITARY DEFAULTERS Southland Times, Issue 24575, 25 October 1941, Page 8
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