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IN THE UNITED KINGDOM SENTENCES ON SOLDIERS IM FIJI. STATEMENT BY MR NASH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The Prime Minister is discussing this matter with the United Kingdom Government and the colonial authorities. and we hope that some steps may be taken by agreement that will ameliorate the sentence on these four boys,” said the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, during a discussion on a report by the Defence Committee, recommending favourable consideration of a. petition presented by a Hawke’s Bay woman who sought a review of the sentence’passed on her soldier son in Fiji. It was stated in the petition that the soldier who had enlisted when under age, was serving a sentence of four years’ imprisonment at Fiji.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1941, Page 5
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