SEDITIOUS BOOKS.
AUCKLAND MAN FINED £5. ! (Per Press Association ' AUCKLAND, Sept. 28. This morning at the Police Court Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., fined Sydney Wilson Scott £5 and costs for haAung in his possession for sale or distribution 12 copies of “Party Training Manual,” hooks which advocated violence and expressed seditious intentioin. When Scott was fined on another charge last Tuesday the Magistrate deferred his decision in this case until* he had perused the booklet.
“I have read many parts of this book,” said Mr Hunt in giving his decision this morning, “and when I got to page 39 I found, speaking about the MacDonald Labour Government, references to the necessity of breaking-up and destroying the Capitalist, the State machinery of bureaucracy, the Courts of Justice, and the military and police apparatus It is not a nood thing for such books to be distributed all over the place, and it is a serious matter. It is only because we have not had many of these cases before the Court recently that I am imposing a light fine.” - In ordering Scott to pay costs, £2 2s, tho Magistrate said that it was worth £2 2s to read 1 the book.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 297, 1 October 1928, Page 2
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