COURT NEWS
TWO COMMUNISTS GAOLED
A THIRD .MAN REMANDED
IBy Telegraph—Per Press Association)
AUCKLAND, April 20
•Said by detectivOis. to be- well-known Conuminisis and agitators, William John' Budd, aged- 35, a seaman, and Roderick Kenneth Rowlands, aged 34, wore' sentenced to three months' gaol for being idle and disorderly with in-,-jufficieiii means of support. Budd was remanded on a further charge of taking part in an unlawful assembly. Deterl ivtyi said that the man rarely worked. Rowland's parents lived in Auckland, but lie had been living at the home of -I. 11. Edwards, a wellknown Communist leader, and spent I lie whole of his time associating with Communists, and speaking from their plat forms. Budd was also a very act i'vo. ('oniniiiiiitrt. When told lie had been going round union secretaries m Auckland trying tu get ..unions to strike., .lie asked the detectives if the union 'secretaries had given him away. A few days' ago he was agitating in 11 1111 fly. Neither arms i| gave evidence bill Rowland's father said that Ins son was an 1 hie in win I, as lie was paraly.-ril 'low II "lie side. The M agist 1 a I<• . "iininad ed !h ' ' lie i | her man had ever explained his means 111 livr|ilimid. Ri.-hanl James Si lr 'field . hi y-.tr-,l a a lint In r (.'"iniilil nisi . was rem ind - 1 f a sentence 011 a charge of using iu- , , ceil 1 lan pi. 1 o ain I >ll "I d' ii> L, h - • 11IUI.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1932, Page 6
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