THE TERRITORIALS.
MILITARY DETENTION. [Per Press Association.] Christchurch, June 11. Two youths, for failure to pay their fines • for breaches of the Defence Act, wore to-day each consigned to 19 days’ military detention at Fort Jervois, Ripa Island. These ’are the first youths to lie awarded military detention instead of gaol in Canterbury. The youths are Walter James Hooper and Harold William Thackwoll. Hooper was convicted and fined for refusing to take the oath and failing to render service, and Thackwell for failing to take the oath, failing to attend drill, and failing to render service. Hooper’s fines amounted to £B, and Thackwell’s to £8 16s, these being equivalent to 49 days’ detention.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 3
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113THE TERRITORIALS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 3
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