COMPULSION-FIRST MAN IN COURT
' DR. M'ARTHUR'S DECISION. At tho Magistrate's Court yesterday, bofore Dr. M'Arthur, a youth named Arthur Davis, 18 years of age, admitted having failed to register: .under Part VI of the Defence Act, 1909, giving as his reason that ho thought that to register would have interfered with his trade of cabinetmaking. The magistrate: That's not tho-slight-est excuse. Sub-Inspector Sheehan stated that this was tho first information laid under tho Act, Tho Defence Department were anxious that it should necomo knowii that offences of this kind would lie prosecuted. The magistrate intimated that no' leniency would be extended in these cases, and no minimum, penalty would be inflicted. It would 1m the full penalty in all cases. On this occasion, however, an adjournment would bo granted, and if defendant registered a penalty might not bo inflicted. The case was therefore adjourned until July i, defendant to register in the meantime.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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153COMPULSION-FIRST MAN IN COURT Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 4
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