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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16904, 1 December 1922, Page 7

The annual Christmas fete of St Chad’s Church, North Linwood, will be hell! this year in the church grounds on the new site opposite the cemetery tiam stop in Buckley's Road, tomorrow. at 2.30 p.m. A social and dance will l>e held in the evening. The case of the youth who applie i before Mr H. Y. Widdowson. S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday for a certificate of exemption from military training on the ground that such training was contrary to his religious beliefs wag heard further by the Ma*gis_ trate in chambers this morning. The ease was adjourned yesterday in orde~ to obtain evidence from the representative of the Socialists’ Sunday School and one of the boy’s parents. However. to-day after recalling the hoy, who again stated that military training was contrary to his religious beliefs, the Magistrate refused the application on the ground that the Socialists’ Sunday School was an educational in- - stitution and not a religious one.