PI'NISHMENT FOR DISTRIBUTING RED LITERATURE. Auckland, April 7. •John Thoms was fined £25 or three months imprisonment, for having sold a document purporting t > have been -igned by Lenin, ’he Russian Bolshevist, which Mr Poynton, S.M., described as one long screech against the" social system and an appeal to community- to use force to overthrow it, encouraging violence and lawlessness. Mr Poynton. quoting from the book, ■'Bcurgeo;s Democracy and Proletarian dictatorship,” said: “So out salvation is nc to be'by the majority working through parliamentary institutions. bat by assassination, confiscation and the torch used by enmity;. In my opinion the book is an indtkgjfeent to and encouragement of lawlessness.
A WORLD ENTREPRENEUR. Mr. Daniel Mayer, vho broagfcl act Lentzii. Paderewski, etc., etc,, it enthuafastic about Q-tol (before shiving) iod Ftasazo] (as an antiseptic atoataiwtjj}. Writing from New York, be csia *hu ■rejpite nmnihlr supplk* be ported for Maawit «ud fricadt. tie offers to h s ’,» the liars* en the Azawksa
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Otaki Mail, 9 April 1923, Page 4
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