COSTLY REMARKS.
PREJUDICING RECRUITING.
(By Telegraph — Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday.
A railway engine-driver was fined £5 to-day for an utterance which it was held might prejudice recruiting. He informed a cleaner who had enlisted that "youths going to the front were mugs, and were practically shot before they arrived there." Tho magistrate said it was not a very bad case, so he indicted a light penalty.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14464, 23 December 1915, Page 5
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66COSTLY REMARKS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 14464, 23 December 1915, Page 5
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