SUBVERSIVE STICKER
FOUND ON CARGO. WATERSIDE WORKER FINED. i (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. May 3. In fining Thomas James Shanahan, a waterside worker. £lO for distributing subversive stickers issued by the Communist Party in Auckland on cargo ir a vessel's hold the magistrate. Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, issued a warning tha' l any others who might come before him on a similar charge would receive the maximum penalty —namely. £lOO or three months' imprisonment—unless they could show why the maximum penalty should not be imposed. Shanahan pleaded guilty to a charge of distributing a sticker entitled "Fight Against Conscription and the Imperialist War." The police said that stickers such as those described were found on cargo being unloaded from the motor vessel Kapiti at Whangarei. Counsel for Shanahan submitted that' the offence occurred only 15 days after the regulations were gazetted. He had no connection with the stickers on overseas vessels. The magistrate said that the punishment inflicted should be such as to deter other people from committing a similar offence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 7
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172SUBVERSIVE STICKER Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 7
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