THE GAUDIN CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 9 January 1915, Page 2

THE GAUDIN CASE.

I A i'LKA OF LKNIKXC'Y. jßy Telegraph—Per Press Association. | Auckland, Yesterday. | As a result of the meeting held on Wednesday in connection with (lie sentence passed, upon Mr O'audin at Samoa, ! Mr liaxbT,' who presided, has written to the Minister for Defence stating that the people of Auckland feel keenly that a serious wrong has been done to a fellow-citizen for what at most appears to have been an act of indiscretion. "It appears," says the letter, "quite clear that Gaudin did not at any time intend to injure his country or 'benefit the enemy, and that he merely failed to observe certain regulations, the breach of which involved no risk to the lives, property, or interests of any kind of any perso n or community, ami that failure to observe such regulations was due (1) to the desire to oblige persons with whom he was associated in business or otherwise personally acquainted, (2) his desire to collect debts due to his firm, without the collection of which his iirm could not have carried on business." The letter urges the Minister to consider whether a breach of regulations could not be adequately met by a fine. '