CHRISTIAN PACIFISTS
FIVE MEN SENTENCED BY CHIEF JUSTICE.
ATTEMPTS TO HOLD PROHIBITED MEETINGS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
The chairman and four members of the Christian Pacifist Society were sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir M. Myers), in the Supreme Court, to terms ranging from eleven months to five months’ imprisonment for offences connected with meetings prohibited under the Emergency Regulations. Those sentenced were: Ormond Edward Burton, minister of religion and chairman of the society, who had been found guilty of conducting a prohibited meeting, and John Whitely Boal, carpenter,. aged 28; David William Silvester, clerk, aged 28; John Robert Hammerton, plasterer, aged 28, and James Doherty, commercial artist, aged 32, who had each been found guilty of attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. Burton was sentenced to eleven months in gaol, Boal to six months and the others to five months. All are at present serving sentences imposed in the Magistrates’ Court and the fresh terms will run concurrently.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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