SUBVERSION CHARGES
PRISONERS SENTENCED. DECISION IN BURTON CASE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. In the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday. Harold William Klein, an orderly-room clerk at a military camp, was sentenced to one year's hard labour. to be followed by reformative detention for 18 months, on a charge that on or about April 25, 1942, he had in his possession a typewritten stencil with a view to facilitating the publication of a subversive statement. Prisoner gave notice to appeal against the sentence. Ormond Edward Burton, former minister of religion, who had been found guilty by a jury of editing a document entitled “N.Z.C.P.S., W.41,” on or about June 6 last, with a view to facilitating the publication of a subversive statement, was sentenced to reformative detention for two and a half years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 4
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133SUBVERSION CHARGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 October 1942, Page 4
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