C2 RES ERVISTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16265, 16 July 1918, Page 4

C 2 RES ERVISTS.

AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT. (press association telegram.) DUNEDIN, July 15. Mr J. R. Bartholomew, SJI., to-day gave judgment in a case under the Dcfenco Act, in which a member of the Expeditionary Force, who had been classed C 2, was charged with failing to render personal service with the Territorials When the case was heard it was stated that the Defence Department disagreed with the ruling recently given by Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., of Wellington, the Department maintaining that the Defence Act, 1909, with the Expeditionary Force Act and the Military Service Act, made the Expeditionary Force part of the Defence Force of the Dominion. Therefore if a Territorial vas drawn in the ballot and classed C 2 he was still liable for training. The dafendant contecded that as a member of the Expeditionary Force- he was free from such sendee. _ TVfr Bartholomew, in entering a conviction, said the fact that the defendant was classed C 2 was not of itself proof of his unfitness to render personal service, and- there was nothing to prevent any obligation -under the Act irom operating in his case.