THE OSTLER CASE
Petition Seeking Release
On Bail
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, March 3. A petition to the Prime Minister asking for the release on bail of Harold Alexander Ostler and Travers Burnell Christopher Christie, to allow them to prepare their case for the Court of Appeal has now been forwarded to Wellington. Ostler and Christie are serving a term in Paparua Prison after conviction on a charge of attempting to publish a subversive statement. The hearing of the appeal made by the two accused will be in Wellington on March 10. More than 1300 persons signed the petitions. Most signatures came from Canterbury, but some were from other South Island centres and some from the North Island.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 135, 4 March 1941, Page 9
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118THE OSTLER CASE Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 135, 4 March 1941, Page 9
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