FOR TREASON.
THE DEATH PENALTY?
(By Telegraph—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. "Is it the intention of the Government to abolish the death penalty for treason?" asked Mr. Broadfoot (Nat., Waitomo) in a notice of question to the Minister of Justice in the House of Representative* yesterday. In a note to his question, Mr. Broadfoot said the Chief Justice had stated iu the Court of Appeal recently that death was the penalty for a particular act which might constitute treason, $nd it was just as well that people should know the serious nature of offences under the War Regulations.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 73, 28 March 1941, Page 8
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