ECHO OF THE CENSUS.
REFUSAL TO FILL IN PAPERS. “CONSCIENTIOUS REASONS.” By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. “Conscientious reasons,” laconically declared two middle-aged men, Harry Batten and Joseph Batten, of Edendale, who came before Mr. Poynton, S.M., today on a charge of having failed to fill in their census papers. “Ridiculous rot,” retorted the Magistrate with equal brevity. When it was explained that the men just refused to fill in the papers when asked to do so by the census sub-enumerator, and that Joseph Batten had been fined (in default a month’s imprisonment) on the occasion of the 1917 census for a similar attitude. Joseph Batten was fined £lO, in default a month’s imprisonment, and Harry Batten was fined £5, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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125ECHO OF THE CENSUS. Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1921, Page 5
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