MR. P. C WEBB, M.P.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 151, 15 March 1918, Page 4

MR. P. C WEBB, M.P.

COURT-MARTIAL PROCEEDINGS TO-BAY. The district court-martini thnt is to try Mr. P. C. Webb. M.P., otherwise Private P. C. Webb, Thirty-ninth Reinforcements, on a < barge of disobeying a lawful command will sit at Trentham Camp this morning. The Court will consist of Major D. W. Talbot (president and Captains A. L. Gray and F. P. Bennett. . Colonel C. R. Macdonald, Chief Infantry Instructor, will appear as JudgeAdvocate, and Lieutenant G. Galloway mil be prosecutor. Mr. Webb will have the right to be represented bv counsel. The charge against "75,301 Private P C Webb" is brought under the Amy Act. He is alleged to have "disobeved in such a manner as to show wilful defiance of authority a lawful command given pe rSOTallv . W . r. B superior officer in the execution <jt ms office, in that lie. at Trentham Camt). on March 11, 1918, when personally ordered to take his issue of kit, refused."

By Toleitrapli.— Vresa Association. Creymouth, March 14. , Mr. P. C. Webb has telegraphed to the labour unions on the West Coast to take no industrial action on account of his military affairs. He will battle bis trouble, as a matter of principle, "on his own."