MILITARY SERVICE ACT.
fai.sk dkclakattox. TTn mill mi, Dec. 18. Tin 1 liisi prosccut ion for Hi Iso declaral ion under I lie* .Military Service Ad was hoard to-day. A young man who was coliahifntwith a woman declared in the National Register return to 1m a married man with one child. Defendant pleaded guilty and said (he object of falsely declaring himself was to protect the woman with whom he was living. Me had no desire to shirk. In any ease he was ineligible owing to blindness in one eye. 'Die Magistrate said the Legislature regarded the offence as very serious, and had he thought defendant committed the act to avoid liability for service he would have sent him to gaol without option. Ife fell inclined, however, to believe his story, ami (hied him j.T) and costs.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1652, 19 December 1916, Page 3
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137MILITARY SERVICE ACT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1652, 19 December 1916, Page 3
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