THE GAUDIN CASE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2354, 9 January 1915, Page 8

THE GAUDIN CASE

AN APPEAL TO THE MINISTER. j (Br Telegraph.—Press Association.) C Auckland, January 8. As a result of the meeting hold on f Wednesday in connection with the sentence passed upon F. E. N. Gaudin at r Samoa, Mr. Baxter, who presided, has ? written to the Minister lor Defence. stating that the people of Auckland feel ? keenly that a serious wrong has been done to a follow citizen for what at most appears to have been an act of j indiscretion. "It apppears quite clear that Gaudin did not at any time 1 intend to injure his country or benefit the il enemy, and that he merely failed to ob- ii serve certain regulations, the broach of e' which invoked no risk ot lives, pro- * perty, or interests of any kind of any d person or the community, and that fail- f lire to observe such regulations was due ,' —(1) To a desire to oblige personswith c whom he was associated in business or B otherwise personally acquainted; (2) li his desiro to collect debts duo to his firm, without the collection of which his F firm could not have continued to carry on business." The writer urges tho Minister to consider whether a breach of the regulations could not bo ade- tc quately met by a fine. ' C\