WAIHI YOUTHS FETED.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13465, 10 July 1912, Page 4

WAIHI YOUTHS FETED.

[United Pkess Association.]

Waihf, .l.i'.y :'. Three Waihi youths who returned to their homes from Thames last evening ai'ter serving sevn:\ <\nys: imprisonment for breache-s of '■'"' Offence Act, veio met on the rai' / '•' i'lArr- by a faction of the Soc". '.. . - -.'; •■•Jit.---I'liiit-irist parties. The b;>;;; w.-?\ j.iaced in front of a procession which marched into town headed by three or four instrumentalists. A red (In.!/, played a prominent part in the procession.

At (ho Seddon memorial Geveral speakers, including two clergymen, delivered speeches against compulsory training, and resolutions wore passed congratulating the youths on their refusal 'to comply with the requirements of the Act.