WAR CENSORSHIP
FIVE PERSONS CHARGED IN AUCKLAND. ALLEGED SUBVERSIVE PUBLICATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. After two adjournments the first charges laid under the Censorship and Publicity Emergency Regulations. 1939. were heard before Mr W. R. McKean. S.M.. in the Police Court, today. Five defendants appeared on summons. They were Dona D. McCarthy. Cyril John Gould Walter Ashton, William Goss Dickenson and Frank Simpson. The first four are charged with the publication of subversive reports, either in the newspaper "The People's Voice.’’ or in pamphlets. Frank Simpson, who is a printer is charged with publishing and printing subversive reports. Opening for the Crown. Mr V. R. Meredith submitted that, firstly, the documents must be read as a whole to appreciate their general character, purport and probabje effect. The ease is proceeding.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1940, Page 6
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132WAR CENSORSHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1940, Page 6
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