SUBVERSIVE STATEMENT
TWO MEN CHARGED. SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, May 24. Sentences of three months’ imprisonment were imposed by Mr Bundle, S.M., on Edgar Wilson Hunter and lan McLellan Jamieson in the Dunedin Magistrates’ Court today on charges of attempting to publish a subversive statement in a leaflet headed “Soldier and Worker,” and distributing the leaflet on March 3 with a view to facilitating the publication of a subversive statement.
The Magistrate described some of the statements in the pamphlet as ‘‘petty puerility,” bitt considered that the clear object of it was to hinder the recruiting and training of soldiers in New Zealand. He remarked at one stage that if the accused were in Germany they would be shot. The charges against each man were laid under the Public Emergency Regulations Act, 1939, and the Public Safety Emergency Regulations, 1940. The accused, who were represented by Mr W. M. Taylor, pleaded not guilty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1940, Page 2
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156SUBVERSIVE STATEMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1940, Page 2
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