MILITARY TRAINING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14017, 25 June 1913, Page 5

MILITARY TRAINING.

AN INTEBESTINQ CASE. (Per United Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, June 24. Judgment was ; given by Mr Cruickshasiks, S.M., at Wyndham to-day in -thecase in which a youth named Caird applied for exemption .from r military training on the ground that it was contrary to his religions belief. Caird said’that ho was a Rationalist and a Humanist, and that he neither affirmed nor denied the existence of a Supreme Being. The Magistrate said that he took 'religion to be a belief binding the spiritual nature of a man to a supernatural being on whom he is conscious he is dependent.Although some might hold that Rationalism, Atheism, and Agnosticism were religions, ho could hot think that any 01 these negative auti-theistic views were of the kind of religion meant by the Act. He could not hold as a matter of law that the applicant had any religious belief whatever, and the application was refused.