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£2s >' ~-v V hv don*W*° attend your par_.Vs, igvt you don’t r.ke WelUhgton^Magistrate (Mr S.M.). ' / “ ‘ Yes, the prompt reply from- . ..Junes Dawson, as he stood in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, charged with :failing to attend dril‘l. .* It was stated by the pohce that the •defendant, who has a formidable-list of •* -similar previous has paid :i£2s in fines. v The Magistrate (glancing at defend'""Snii’s past record): Dawson, you don’t .-seem to have made any effort to attend yvxnr parades. Dawson (shifting nervously): No, :teijr, that is correct. •“I don’t understand .you,” said Mr 'Page. ‘Do you yourself understand why you do not go to drill? Again there was a reply in the negattivc. " < ‘That’3 rather funny,” commented Mr Page, and then, after a pause: “I .think vou had better start parading. - "You will be convicted and ordered to •come up fjMLsentence within 12 months. >Under.stanWiowevef, that if you do not ..-attend drill on any occasion within that ✓period you can b? brought up again.’ 1, “Very well, sir ” said the youth, as Lhe swung out of Court.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 December 1925, Page 5
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