TERRITORIAL CHARGED
MAGISTRATE REPLIES TO UNUSUAL DEFENCE.
Press 'Amoctiuion. • DUNEDIN, May 9. The magistrate gave judgment today in a case in which a youth ' was charged With failing to register as a territorial. The defence was that the youth had a statutory alien father, having beCn naturalised as an American citizen.
His Worship said that no documents had been produced in this case. He thought there had been some confusion regarding, the rights of the individual States in America nnd those of the United States ns to citizenship. The father of defendant was not in a position to become an American citizen, because he had not resided there long enough to comply with the conditions. As the matter hud been raised in a perfectly bona fide way he would simply order defendant to pay costs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10276, 10 May 1919, Page 6
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135TERRITORIAL CHARGED New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10276, 10 May 1919, Page 6
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