WAR SERVICE
PENALTIES FOR DEFAULT INTENTIONS OF WELLINGTON . MAGISTRATE. SHORT TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR FIRST OFFENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. His attitude to military defaulters was stated by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court today, “so that others may know the attitude this Court will take up.” Mr Stout said that when defaulters’ detention came into; force the difficulty which would face the Court would be whether to give a short term of imprisonment, in ' order that defendants might perhaps see the error of their ways and volunteer for military service, or whether to impose defaulters’ detention, if defendants failed to render service. The latter might mean detention for years, because no one knew how long the war would last. “So far as this Court is concerned,” Mr Stout added, “it,intends, in the case of a first offence, to inflict a short term of imprisonment, to let you think it over. If you come before the Court again, it will be the Court’s duty to send you to defaulters’ detention, when that is properly constituted.” Four men were sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for failure to report for military service. Three were fined £5 for failure to enrol.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 6
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203WAR SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 October 1941, Page 6
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