PROHIBITED MEETING
LABOURER CHARGED IN WELLINGTON. NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE SPEECH IN COURT. (By Telegraph—Press' Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Remarking that, people came before the Court and used it as a forum in which to do the thing which the law prohibited, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M.. today checked James Doherty, a labourer aged 32, in an address ho was making to the Bench.
Doherty, who was stated to have' spoken on behalf of the Christian Pacifists, was charged with obstructing Superintendent Lopdell in the execution of his duty and also with conducting a prohibited meeting. On the first charge he was convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. On the second ho was committed to (be Supreme Court for trial
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 6
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121PROHIBITED MEETING Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1941, Page 6
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