New Zealand News.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 May 1918, Page 6

New Zealand News.

It: . <*♦ A SHIRKER SENTENCED. A DESPICABLE CASE, ,j • AUCKLAND, May 6. A First Division Reservist, John Charles Ormes, was charged at the Police Court to-day with failing to enrol. The police stated that the ac. eased, with a married woman who was separated from her husband, and had two children, lived on a fishing boat in the harbour for two years. They lived on the woman’s maintenance money, supplemented by the proceeds of fishing. He was dodging military service, and avoided coming into the city, the woman doing any necessary business. Ormes was on the roll as a Second Division reservist, Class D, his address being Waiheke Island, in the Gulf.

The Magistrate said had it not been that the need for men was so great, the accused would have received a long term of imprisonment. Sentence of six months’ imprisonment wa« passed, the accused to be handed over to the military authorities at the expiration of the term. RETURNING SOLDIERS. ADVICE TO NEXT-OF-KIN. WELLINGTON, May 6. In future, when returned invalid soldiers disembark at Wellington or Auckland, the ship carrying them will be anchored in the stream, where all ’work of medical boarding, issue of leave passes and travelling warrants, of pay, checking baggage, etc., will be carried out. This work ■will occupy approximately 6i hours for 500 men, and about an hour extra lor each additional 100. Although the Government is compelled to cancel free rail passes to next-of-kin, a reserved enclosure for relatives and Iriends of returning soldiers will be provided, two tickets for wTuoTT can r obtained by or friends nominated by the latter. When Wellington is the port of arrival these tickets can be obtained at the Base Records Office, and when the port of arrival is Auckland, at Defence Headquarters there. ~