JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
CASE FOR APPEAL REGULATIONS CHALLENGED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Challenging the governing regulations on the ground that they were ultra vires and void, Mr Evan Parry, of Wellington, today asked Mr Justice Smith in the Supreme Court to uphold the appeal of Henry Septon Herbert against his conviction at Hawera and imprisonment for three months for taking part in activities of Jehovah’s Witness. The Court reserved its decision. Counsel submitted that express power was not given in the empowering Act to declare Jehovah’s Witnesses a subversive organisation. If the regulations were held to be valid, he said, a new substantive crime of subversion would have been created. Its definition was so wide that it might include any sort of criticism of the Government, in* dividual* or conduct of the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21362, 5 March 1941, Page 4
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134JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21362, 5 March 1941, Page 4
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