THE OATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 24, 21 September 1912, Page 8

THE OATH.

PROSECUTIONS,;i;AIL

:m r ■ ■ (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, September 23. The time of Mr T. A. Bailey, S.M., at the Police Court to-day was chiefly occupied with dealing , with a large batch of prosecutions under the Defence Act. Most of the charges were for failing to render service. Mr Cassidy appeared for practically all the defendants. When the first case of failing to render 'service came on, His Worship .said that he would uphold Mr Cassidy’s contention, made the other day, that under the Defence Act the men were to be drafted from the general training section to the Territorials, and Parliament had to allocate the number required. Accordingly, he could not convict any young man who had not taken the oath of failing to render service, but those who had taken the oath had waived their rights in respect to the matter, and so could ho convicted.