A SEDITIOUS BOOK.
COMMUNIST FINED. Auckland, 'Sept. 29. At the Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., fined Sydney Wilson Scott £5 and costs for having in his possession for sale or distribution twelve copies of “The Party Training Manual,” a book which- advocated violence and expressed seditious intention. 1 When Scott was fined on another charge last Tuesday the Magistrate deferred his decision in this case until he had perused the booklet. “I have read many parts of this book,” said Mr. Hunt in giving his decision yesterday morning, “and when I got to page 39 I found, speaking about the MacDonald Labour Government, reference to the necessity of breaking up and destroying the capitalist state, the machinery of bureaucracy, the Courts of justice, and military and police apparatus. It is not a good thing for such books to be distributed. over the plarm, and it is a serious matter. It is only because we have not had many of these cases before the Court recently that I am imposing q, light fine.” In ordering Scott to pay costs £2 2s, the Magistrate said that, it was worth £2 2s to read the hook.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3852, 2 October 1928, Page 3
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196A SEDITIOUS BOOK. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3852, 2 October 1928, Page 3
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