A PAMPHLET.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1921, Page 5

A PAMPHLET.

ALLEGED SEDITIOUS VIEWS. AN APPEAL ALLOWED. By Telegraph Press Association. Wellington, July 18. The Full Court was occupied this morning in the hearing of an appeal against the judgment of Mr. Hunt, S.M., at Wellington in dismissing two informations by which Mr. P. H. Hickey, editor of the Maoriland Worker, was charged with printing and publishing, and J. Glover with selling a pamphlet called “Ireland’s Tragedy; Scotland’s Disgrace.” This pamphlet was alleged to express seditious intention against the Government of New Zealand. Mr. Hunt dismissed both informations, and against this an appeal was lodged. At the hearing this morning appellant was represented by Mr. Macassey and Mr. O’Regan appeared for the respondents. Mr. Macassey, in opening his case, said there was no definition of seditious intention in the regulatons under which the respondents were charged, but “seditious intention” wap, he said, defined in the Crimes Act, and on this definition he relied. Wellington, Last Night. The Full Court concluded the hearing of two appeals in the cases of Ambrose v. Glover.

Mr. O’Regan, for the respondents (Hickey and Glover), contended that the view that no offence had been committed because the pamphlet did not express any seditious intention against the New Zealand Government was correct.

At the conclusion of the argument, Mr. Justice Sim (acting-Chief Justice) delivered an oral judgment, in which he said the Court was entitled to go to the Crimes Act for a definition of seditious intention. There was, he said, nothing in that Act to justify the magistrate’s view and the appeal therefore would be allowed and the case remitted to the magistrate for reconsideration. The other Judges concurred in this judgment. Costs amounting to £5 5s were allowed appellant in each case.