THE DEFENCE ACT.
THE PASSIVE RESISTERS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. A flaw in the Defence Act was discovered in connection, with the prosecution of a Senior Cadet named Pugh, charged with refusing to take the oath of allcgirncc. Defendant was a Senior Cadet, and having attained the age of eighteen, was, under compulsion by the Ajet, to be drafted in the prescribed manner through the general training section into the Territorial forces. Giving his ruling on the point raised by counsel, Mr. Eraser, S.M., said that he was unable to find anything in the Aet requiring defendant to take the oath of allegiance on being drafted into the general training section. He was certainly not a member of the defence force as defined by the Act. The general training section and the Territorial force were two entirely different bodies. It was a matt* 1 )' of some importance. He would be glad if the Defence Department decided to take it to a Judge of the Supreme Court, though personally he had no doubt about it. The case vras dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 141, 1 November 1912, Page 3
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179THE DEFENCE ACT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 141, 1 November 1912, Page 3
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