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"RIDICULOUS ROT!” SAYS MAGISTRATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, June 10. "Conscientious reasons," laconically declared two middle-aged men Henry Batten and Joseph Batten, of l-.dendale. who came before Mr. Poynton, S.M.. today. on a charge of having failed t» fill in their census papers. _ “Ridiculous rot,” retorted the Magistrate with equal brevity, when it was explained that the men just refused to fill in papers, and that Joseph Batten had been fined (with the option of t. month's imprisonment) on the occasion of the 1916 census for a similar attitude. Joseph Batten was fined £lO, in default one month’s imprisonment. an« Henry Batten was fined £5, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 6
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113OBJECTED TO CENSUS Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 220, 11 June 1921, Page 6
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