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BOLSHEVIST AGENT FINED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 28. Walter Nash, publishers’ agent, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty to two charges of having brought into New Zealand literature advocating and encouraging lawlessness and violence contrary to the Regulations Continuance Act. The pamphlets complained of vfere “The Communist Programme of the World Revolution,” “The Communist Movement to the 1.W.W.,” a special message from the Communist Internationale, Moscow. Mr Nash explained that the litera- , ture reached him as samples in a business way, and he had no intention of circulating them. Mr. Hunt, S.M., described the pamphlets as just as dangerous to the body politic as typhoid germs in the city reservoir, and said had Nash intended to circulate them he would have imposed the maximum penalty, but, in the circumstances, the case would be met by a fine of £5 and £7 costs. Two charges of selling such literature against two others have yet to be heard.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 March 1921, Page 4
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