AN UNUSUAL CASE.
REFUSAL TO PAY A FINE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night. Mulraine Joseph Sherlock pleaded not gu»ty in the Magistrate's Court to a charge of failing to pay a line of 10s. Counsel said that there was an important principle involved. Defendant was a member of the Post and Telegraph Department and part of his duties was to drill in the Post and Telegraph Corps, where he was under the same officers. Uis had led to friction, and defendant had been brought up on two charges 'before his superiors. He denied lliat he had talked on parade, or haeS refused to obey an order, but he was convicted, and he was refused a district court-martial. Now there was a danger that he would be discharged on the grounds of infringing the rules of the department.
The Magistrate, Mr. V. G. Day, imposed a fine of 10s, to be reduced to Is if defendant paid the original fine. He said it seemed bad that it man should serve under the same superior in civil and m military life, an d it was liable to cause unpleasantness. It would be bettor for the corps to be officered by outsiders. '
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 4
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200AN UNUSUAL CASE. Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 4
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