FINED ANOTHER £5.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 230, 28 September 1928, Page 8

FINED ANOTHER £5.

SCOTT, THE COMMUNIST.

"SERIOUS," SAYS MR. HUNT. \ 1) EST R U CTIOX ADVOCATED. This morning, at the Police Court, Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.M., fined Sydney Wilson Scott £5 and costs for having in hi< possession for sale or distribution 18 copies of the '"Party Training Manual; books which advocated violence and expressed a seditious intention. When Scott was fined on another charge last Tuesday, the magistrate deferred his decision in this case until he had perused the booklet. "I have read many parts of this book,' 'said Mr. Hunt, in giving his decision this morning, "and when I got to page .'SO I found, speaking about the Mac Donald Labour Government, references to the necessity of breaking up and destroying the capitalist state, machinery of bureaucracy, court* of justice, and military and police apparatus. It i« not a good thing for such books to be distributed all over the placc. and it i~ a scriou* iiia'ter. Tt is only because we have not had many of Ihese cases before the Court recently that I am imposing such a light fine." In ordering Scott to pay cost? £'2 -f% the magistrate said that it wa sworth £2 2/ to read the book.