FAILED TO REGISTER IN RESERVE
PROSECUTION IN CHRISTI HVRI H FIRST OF ITS KIND IN NEW ZEALAND [ Per Press Association. J CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 3. In the first case of its kind in lhe Dominion, Ernest Charles Storer, labourer, aged 26, was charged with failure to register in Class I of the General Reserve, thus missing the ballots for home and overseas service. Detective-Sergeant J. McClung said Storer, when questioned, admitted he had failed to register with the General Reserve. Storer also appeared for sentence on charges of failing to account for f5O. Explaining Storer’s failure to register counsel said it was because of his reluctance to return to his employer to get his levy book. Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., refused counsel’s plea to allow Storer to take up military service and sentenced him to four months’ gaol on the major charge of failing to account for £5O and convicted and. discharged him on the other.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 285, 4 December 1940, Page 6
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