THE DEFENCE ACT.
CHRISTCHURCH BREACHES. (By Telegraph.—Pret» Auociation.) CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. Two youths, for failure to pay their fines for breaches of the Defence Act, were to-day each consigned to fortynine days' military, detention at FortJervois, Ripa Island. These are the first youths to be awarded military detention instead of gaol in Canterbury. The youths are Walter James Hooper and Harold William Thackwell. Hooper was convicted and fined 40s for refusing to take the oath, and failing to render service, and Thackwell for failing to take the oath and failing to attend drill, an also failing to render service. Hooper's fines amounted to £B, and Thackwell's to £8 16s, these being equivalent to forty-nine days' detention."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 June 1913, Page 6
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116THE DEFENCE ACT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 June 1913, Page 6
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