BANNED SECT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 282, 27 November 1940, Page 5

BANNED SECT.

MENTION IN COURT. I QUESTION OF MAINTENANCE. 1 (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Mention of Jehovah's Witnesses was made in the Supreme Court to-day when an application for permanent maintenance was being discussed. A husband offered £6 10/ a month and the wife wanted £10. The Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, thought the first sum too small and the second too large. H® asked counsel to arrange a figure. It was stated that the husband objected to part of the maintenance swelling the coffers of Jehovah's Witnesses, ito which sect the respondent belonged. (Counsel for the husband said the respondent was engaged in canvassing, or what ; was known as "selling Jehovah." His Honor said if the wife got £10 any surplus would go to the subsidising of a sect or body which had been practically declared illegal and the Court rcust be careful to see that it did not do anything toward subsidising an illegal organisation. "I suggest that you draw up a budget, leaving out any contribution to Jehovah's Witnesses, of course, whether directly or indirectly," said liis Honor. The matter was adjourned to allov . counsel to confer.