A SHIRKER SCOTCHED.

Taihape Daily Times, 15 July 1919, Page 6

A SHIRKER SCOTCHED.

From Otago comes a satisfactory story of a, persistent and successful‘: shirker who did‘ not score every point! in the game. He was the son of {mi hotelkeeper who had 21. farm 10 miles,‘ out of town. In order t.o evade terri-J‘ torial parades, the disloyel one put in: 3. day a week -on the farm, claimed that I he was outside the milius, and secured I exemption from dvri‘.-ls. Then he at-' tended the ’l_‘erriftorial parades as an onlcvoker, and gibed at the other men for their foolishness in drilling. The sequel to this was that the Territorials struck and refused to parade again‘ until the other fellow was made towdo his duty. The next step was that the shil'ker was called into camp. Ho joined the ignoble army of missing, but was ultimately arrested as a deserter and sent into camp. After :1 little while, by some mysterious means, he got out of camp, -and succeeded in evading war service. 'l‘hc"other day he was anxious to become the owner of a nice 5000-acre farm of Crown land, and he got. over the first hurdle. But the Reiturned Soldiers’ Associn-' tion, which is keeping a sharp eye upon the men who shirked «all over the Dominion, brought. the man’s record before the Land Hoard, especially emphasising the fact that he was a. defaulter. And the Board refused to! grant him the transfer. ___________