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CHARGE AGAINST PENSIONER FIRST WAIKATO CASE The first case of its kind in the Waikato since the publication of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations last year came before Mr G. K. Sinclair, J.P., in the Hamilton Police Court today when William Belcher, a 65-year-old pensioner, of Frankton, was chargea with publishing a statement likely to interfere with the national effort by the disruption of the morale of the civil population and of His Majesty’s Forces.
Detective-Sergeant J. Thompson said that the defendant was arrested on Saturday night while distributing literature relating to the Jehovah’s Witnesses movement which was recently banned by the Government as a subversive organisation. Belcher, who promised to suspend his activities until his trial, was remanded on a bail and surety of £25 to appear in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, next Friday.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21372, 17 March 1941, Page 4
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137SUBVERSIVE LITERATURE Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21372, 17 March 1941, Page 4
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