"RED WORKER" CASE.
COURT DISMISSES APPEALS
THREE SENTENCES REDUCED.
(Bj- Telegraph.—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
Reserved judgment was delivered in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr. Justice Re<?d on the appeals by John Joseph Robinson, Alexander Galbraith, and Richard Francis Griffin from the sentence of three years' reformative detention imposed on each of them by Mr. E. Page, 8.M., on charges under the
War Regulations Act. • The charge in respect of which Gnflin and Galbraith appealed was that they printed and published an issue of the "Red Worker" containing allegedly seditious passages. _ Robinson appealed from his conviction on a charge of printing and publishing an allegedly seditious pamphlet. The three appeals were dismissed, but the sentences were reduced as follows: Griffin 18 months, Robinson IS months, Galbraith 12 months, all reformative detention.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 226, 23 September 1932, Page 5
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