JAIL FOR YEAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 9

JAIL FOR YEAR

Sentences In Christchurch

MAXIMUM PENALTY

(B t Telegraph—Press Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, February IS.

A sentence of 12 months’ jail with hard labour was imposed on Harold Alexander Ostler and Travers Burnell Christopher Christie, who appeared before Mr. .Justice Northcroft in the Supreme Court today for sentence on charges of attempting to publish a subversive statement. "The country is engaged ‘in the most serious war in its history,” said his Honour. "Its political and social arrangements may not. be satisfactory to trny of us, but at least we have the means of obtaining orderly improvement to both. The loss of this war would deprive us of the many benefits we enjoy, and would reduce us to slavery,"so that we would lose the liberty of proceeding to any further improvement of our social and economic conditions. “It is while we are under the shadow of this terrible danger that you indulge in your fatuous attempts to interfere with our war effort. M ith cleat deliberation and purpose you have both elected to defy the law against subversion. . "The maximum punishment is Imonths’ ja'il with hard labour, for which reason alone I sentence you both to imprisonment with hard labour for that period.”