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Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 May 1918, Page 1

An elderly woman, who was born in Dublin, but who had married an Austrian, was charged in the Auckland Police Court with failing to register as n-i alien. Sub-Inspector Wohlman said the defendant hid been separated from her husband for 21 years, and he was interned. She-had said she knew of the matter of registration, but did not think it applied to females. As the woman was said to be in indigent circumstances, and it seemed a genuine case of ignorance of the law, she was rierely convicted and discharged. A proposal which should be hailed • ith great enthusiasm by returned soldiers was made by a speaker at a meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association on Thursday night. 7To said he did not think that any soldier who had fought for twelve months nt the front could come back sane. Tie proposed that the Government -hould provide a place whore every returned soldier could live free of charge "or six months under military diseip"inc. They could then repariate them, added the speaker, amidst laughter, for they will not bo sane until then.