THE BLUNDERER.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 27 July 1917, Page 4

THE BLUNDERER.

EXPOSURE IN PARLIAMENT.

In the House on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Wilford asked the Defence Minister if he had heard of the case of a well-known man in Wellington, a milk seller, who was arrested on the previous day as a deserter. The man in question was deaf and had been twice medically examined for jservice and been turned down owing to his infirmity. Mr. Wilford, holding up the man's papers for the House and the Minister to see, said: "A constable visited him at his home yesterday. The man produced these papers, but the constable, said, 'You will have to come along. I have strict orders and anyway I am not going to lose pound I get for arresting a deserter so come along!" (Loud cries of indignation.) Mr. Wilford went onto say that after the man had been taken to town by the constable and detained at Buckle street barracks for over an hour, he was let go again. Sir James Allen: I do not know anything about th e case, but I will have enquiries made.