REFUSAL TO DRILL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 15 July 1929, Page 3

REFUSAL TO DRILL

PROSECUTION OF STUDENTS FINK PAVABLE FROM YVAGE.S (liy Televrapli—Special to "The Mail") AUCKLAND, 12th' July,: Warrants lor-the ui'resJL' : o£ the. 1 two Presbyterian thed'logical students, Alan Morgan Richards and Alexander Miller, who refused to pay the lines imposed upon them by Mr Hunt, S.M'.,, for failure to attend drill, had not been! executed to-day. The ..Magistrate's' Court lias issued an attachment order against Miller's employers for the payment into Court of 15s a week until the fine and eosts, amounting to £5 13s, have been paid. The sentence of the Court was a line u( £5 in each ease, in default, two weeks' imprisonment. Both men having declined to pay the line would in the ordinary course of events have gone to prison. The action of the Court in issuing an; attachment order alters the, position ih; the ease of Miller, whose employers j have now become liable for the collection of the fine. Authority for this action is obtained under section 11 of the Defence Amendment Act. 1912, which provides for the. issue on the application of any person of an attachment order against the offender's employer, stipulating that "the fine'shall bo by way of weekly payments of such amount as the Magistrate or Justices may think fit, be ' a charge on any salary or wages which from time to time become due and payable by the employer to the offender." No order of this nature has been issued in the case of Richards, as he is a full-time student and is not in employment. (The Premier told a deputation of Labour members that the whole question of the Richards-Miller case would come before Cabinet this week.) ,