CENSUS DEFAULTERS.
TWO MEN FINED. IRKSOME CONSCIENCES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This ©ayr- " Conscientious 'reasons" laconically declared two middle-aged men named Joseph Batten and Henry Batten, of Edendale, who came .before Mr Poynton, S.M., on a charge of having failed to fill in their census papers. " Ridiculous rot," retorted the magistrate, with equal brevity, when it was explained that the men just recused to fill in the papers, and that Joseph Batten had been fined v (with the option "of a month's imprisonment) on the occasion of the 1916 census lor a' similar attitude.
Joseph Batten was fined £lO (in default one month's imprisonment), and Henry Batten was fined £5 default fourteen days' imprisonment).
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Waipa Post, Volume XIX, Issue 1104, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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