LAWLESS PAMPHLET
FOREIGN DISTRIBUTOR
THREE MONTHS' GAOL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.} I ■ AUCKLAND, This Day. Edward Frederick Thompson, aged 52, described by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., as a foreigner with a British nanie, was sentenced to ' three" months' imprisonment on a charge of encouraging lawlessness by distributing a pamphlet entitled "Revolt." ■ : : . ' . Counsel: urged that the pamphlet did not actively invite:' All it. .-did was j to advise the men-'not to go to-unem-ployment camps. • • '..".' ...... I The Magistrate held that the document could havo no other effect than to | encourage lawlessness. The Government was doing its best to put the country right,:.and "these^people" were doing; their best to oppose it. "There are troiibles enough' without having foreigners distributing - such literature,". said his Worship. :
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1931, Page 9
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121LAWLESS PAMPHLET Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 59, 7 September 1931, Page 9
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