UNWILLING SOLDIER.
DISREGARDS FINE. "THEY ARE PUTTING ME DOWN." Dunedin, July 25. William Mclntyre, aged nineteen years, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning on a judgment summons issued by the Defence Department to compel him to pay a fine of 10s, which, was .im-' posed upon him for failing to attend parades. Court costs had increased the sum demanded to 18s.
Captain Fraser, who appeared for the officer commanding the 4th Regiment, said the lad liad given as his reasons for objecting to service that he was probably not medically fit. He also said he could not pay the fine because he had to support his mother.
! Mclntyre said that he was a laborer. I He had received Ss a day for the past I month, and prior to that 32s fid a week. i Since receiving the major sum he liad I given his mother (whose husband was J away from home and contributed nothing) as much as £2.a week, while when he had received 32s 6d a week he gave her from 25s to 30s. Cross-examination showed that defendant had been to one parade, and that the medical examination proved him to be fit. The Magistrate, Mr. Widdowson, addressing the defandant, said: "It seems to me that you are shaping a course that, if you persist in it, will lead to a. result disastrous physically as well as morally. You admit that you have taken two or three drinks. We know ; what that means. My strong advice to you is to pull yourself up." Defendant (scornfully): "How can J pull myself up if they are putting me down ?" •
■Mr. Widdowson: "The best'thing you can do is to submit cheerfully." Defendant (doggedly): "I will never, never do that now!" . Mr. Widdowson: "I do not know how far you have been paying your mother the whole of your wages to defeat purposes of the fine. You aTe risfht to help your mother, but it is quite clear that you could have paid the fine. It has got to be paid, and I shall make an order that you pay at the rate of 5s per fortnight. If you do not you will be imprisoned for twenty-four hours.". ■Mr. Widdowson added that it might, be advisable in these cases to get attachment orders on wages lest the defendants should take the alternative,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 60, 29 July 1912, Page 3
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392UNWILLING SOLDIER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 60, 29 July 1912, Page 3
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