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WRITTEN BY FITTER. FINE IMPOSED BY MAGISTRATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. July 18. A summons charge of publishing information which would or might 'be useful to enemy States was brought in the Magistrates’ Court against Leonard Walter Scott Reid, fitter, employed at the Otahuhu railway workshops. He pleaded not guilty. The police prosecutoi’ said that Reid approached a printer with a request to print 1000 leaflets. The leaflets were not printed, but the prosecution contended that had they been printed some might have fallen into the hands of persons in neutral ships and been carried abroad. Defending counsel, Mr Haigh, submitted that there was no legal offence and that the copy for the leaflets did not come under the Censorship and Publicity Emergency Regulations. Defendant composed copy for the leaflets from a well-known book and had no idea that it might be valuable to the enemy. The magistrate, Mr Hunt, said he was satisfied that what was done was done innocently. He fined Reid £2. Counsel’s application to increase the fine to £5 Is to permit of an appeal was refused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 2
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183UNPUBLISHED LEAFLET Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1941, Page 2
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