£30 FINE IMPOSED
SUBVERSION CHARGE
PRINTING A LEAFLET
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, This Day. Holding that Ernest James Brooks, aged 40,- printer and clerk, on March 26, printed a leaflet headed "The Real Criminals" "with '& view t6 facilitating the publication of a subversive statement, Mr. F. H. - Levien, S.M:, today fined him £30 in default six weeks' imprisonment. Brooks denied the charge. . Mr. Levien said he had come to the conclusion, not without some slight doubt, that Brooks knew the nature "of the publication which his small "printery had handled and printed. "There is still a doubt in my mind," the Magistrate added, "as to whether Brooks was a perfectly independent party. However, the case is one which I think calls for the imposition of a fine-"
The Magistrate refused to allow time lor the payment of the fine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 11
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139£30 FINE IMPOSED Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 11
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