TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) EVASION OF MILITARY SERVICE. DUNEDIN, Sept. 10. Arthur Gregory McCarthy was today sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment for unlawfully using a name other than that by which he was entered on the military defaulters’ list. The defence had been that lie had not received notice to parade lor examination, and therefore had not evaded any lawful command, and that his name H>’as improperly on the defaulters’ list. The Magistrate commented upon accused deliberately evading service and using a false name and leave pass. If counsel’s contentions were correct, he said, the position was purely Gilhertian, and amounted to this: that the accused performed his obligations by successfully evading them. The Magistrate held that accused came within the provisions of desertion, as defined in tho Act, but assuming he was not a deserter, his actions brought him within another subsection— “having otherwise made default in the obligations imposed on him.” The Magistrate also held that accused’s name was properly on the military defaulters’ list.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION. WELLINGTON, Sept. 10. The conference of governing bodies of technical colleges has concluded. Resolutions were passed, urging the Government to commence the system of day-time continuation education, by requiring that all trades apprentices in Government or local body employ, in the vicinity of a technical school be com pelled, as part of the apprenticeship conditions, to attend the technical school in working hours; that properly equipped gymnasia be provided at all

technical schools; that provision be made for the establishment of classes to train workers disabled in civil occupations; that girls should be given special inducements to qualify for a certificate in housecraft, enabling tho holders to attain a higher status as home assistants; and that provision he made for the issue by the Education Department of technical school teachers’ certificates, with specified requirements.