New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 69, 26 February 1916, Page 6

New Zealand

FINED FOR DISLOYALTY. Tek rnuss Association. • Auckland, February 2G. A man named Charles Flower day was lined £2o in default two months’ fipprisonmont for making a statement at a boardinghouse dinner-table indi- ■ eating liis disloyalty. The evidence showed that when a woman at the table remarked that she had a brother in camp, Flowerday expressed the hope that all the British would get shot. He said he would rather tight for the , Germans any day than the British, because of the dirty tricks the British had pfciy.ed. It seemed something had been said to defendant about why he had not enlisted, which caused him to be irritable, but there was-'evidence that he had several times previously expressed similar sentiments, and that his general grudge .seemed to be eon- • nected with the Waihi strike. Ihe Magistrate stated that at a time like this sentiments calculated to provoke antagonism and set class against class' • must be discountenanced. If defendant’s remarks bad been made in a public place, be would have been sent to gaol.