ANTI-CONSCRIPTIONIST SENT TO GAOL
■ ' « ;••■!> ','■■' ELEVEN MONTHS' IMPRISON- 1 " MENT. By Telegraph—Press Association:'"" ■ •■; Christohurchf February 2; Peter Scott Ramsay, president of the Anti-Conscription League, who appeared on remand tp-da'y oh charges of seditious utterances, made, a long speech, which -\yas. cut short by Mr. T. A'.'.B. Bailey, S.M., who said the speecluw.as against recruiting. He sentenced, "the accused to - eleven months' imprison- ' ment, concurrent, on each of _ .two charges, and said he'did not 'give a year's sentence, as there would be a. question then whether the accused I .' would still come within the Reserve. : . Mr. S. G., Raymond, K.C., military authorities could take Ramsay *■'■■' almost any time' to camp, as ho had been drawn in the ballot. He roadtf that statement because a lot of thesej men thought they would be safer in gaol than "in Flanders. ,J
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2994, 3 February 1917, Page 9
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137ANTI-CONSCRIPTIONIST SENT TO GAOL Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2994, 3 February 1917, Page 9
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