SUBVERSIVE STATEMENTS
FOUR MEN FOUND GUILTY. SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 7. Reserved judgment was given by Mr F. H. Levien. S.M.. in the Police Court in the case in which four men were charged on Tuesday with publishing subversive statements, alleged by the Crown to be breaches of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations Act 1940.
Defendants were Thomas Stanley secretary of Auckland General Labourers’ Union, who was charged that on March 26 he published a subversive leaflet "The Real Criminals” and also that he requested publication of a subversive statement; John Reginald Angelo and Ron Hurd and John Langdon who were each charged that on April 5 they published a subversive statement in- a speech at a meeting in Cobden Street.
Each defendant was found guilty on the charge of publishing a subversive leaflet. Stanley was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour and convicted and discharged on the second charge. Defendants Angelo. Hurd and Langdon were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 7
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171SUBVERSIVE STATEMENTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1940, Page 7
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