SEDIITOUS STATEMENT
. ' —fl- — •' ; PAMPHLETEER FIXED. By Telegraph—Press Association/' ,-Auckland, February 1. Egorton Cji]l to-day 5 was lined £20, with costs £4 lis., for publishing a seditious statement' in a pamphlet entitled, "The First' Duty of the Citizen ■ is to..Obey the' Law," which the Magistrate: held had ;a tendency to' discourage the .prosecution of the/'war and excite or. 'encoijrage opposition, to tho enforcement or" administration" 'of tho law .relative to military training. Alexander Vail, charged with aiding and abetting, in that lie . printed tho pamphlet, was fined £3, with costs £2 9s.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 9
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91SEDIITOUS STATEMENT Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 9
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