FAILURE TO ENROL.
A GLARING CASE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. A First Division reservist, John Charles Ormes, was charged at the police court to-day with failing to enrol. The police stated that accused, with a married woman who was separated from her husband, and had two children, lived on a iishing boat in the harbor. For two years they had lived on the woman's maintenance money, supplemented by the proceeds of fishing, lie 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 .1), his address being given as Waiheke Island, in the gulf." The magistrate said that had it not been that the need for men was so great, accused would have received a long term of imprisonment. A sentence of six: months' imprisonment was imposed, accused to be handed over to the military authorities at the expiration of that term.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1918, Page 5
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161FAILURE TO ENROL. Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1918, Page 5
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