WANGANUI JOTTINGS.
(By TeleEraph.—Special Correspondent.) Wanganui. March 4. Mr. J. W. Alderton, a well-known builder contractor, has been nominated lor the Borough Council vacancy, thus making four candidates in the field.' Ernest Henry Mackay, a youth, was charged at the S.M. Court to-day with refusing to attend drill and also inciting others to absent themselves. Evidence was given to the effect that, on three occasions, he had been ordered out of the. Drill Hall on account of his conduct,' and that, on one occasion, he had grandiloquently declared that he would "sooner do twenty years in gaol than one hour's drill," He was fined £1 on each charge, m' default threo days' imprisonment. The magistral* remarked that such a stato of affairs could not bo tolerated; No doubt accused had been influenced by tlie pernicious literature now being circulated throughout tho Dominion, and had no conception of his duty to his country. Ho would not inflict the full penalty, but, in future cases, he would inflict one that would be remembered.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 2
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171WANGANUI JOTTINGS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1380, 5 March 1912, Page 2
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