APPEALS DISMISSED
BUT SENTENCES ARE REDUCED. R ECENT “REP WO R KEft”. CASE. i Per Press Assuciatiorv—(Joyyriylit. j WELLINGTON,' September 23. Reserved judgment was ' delivered in the Supreme''Gdurt tU-day by ‘His Honour, Mr'Justice Reid, on-the appeals by John-Joseph Robinson; Alexander Gilbraith, and Richard Francis Griffin, from the sentences of-three years’ reformative detention imposed on each of them by Mr Page, S.M., on charges under the War Regulations. The charge in respect of which Griffin and Galbraith appealed was that they printed and published an issue of the “Red Worker,” containing allegedly seditious passage. Robinson appealed from his conviction on the charge of printing and publishing an allegedly seditious pamphlet. The three appeals were dismissed, hut - the sentences were, reduced as follows: Griffin to 18 months’; Robinson 15 months; * and Galbraith 12 months’, all reformative detention.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 6
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135APPEALS DISMISSED Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1932, Page 6
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