SALAMAN SENTENCE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 131, 1 December 1930, Page 16

SALAMAN SENTENCE

, FURTHER RESOLUTIONS

'•NOT A CHARLATAN"

! : t&y Telegraph—Press Associatioa.) ■ X 'nEWPLTMOUTIT, 30th Nor. : About one hundred persons crowded Xdund the doors and forty more were counted as they left the hall on Saturday night after passing unaniniously xesolntions asking for the immediate releise from prison of Salamau. The meeting was intensely enthusiastic, and trie remarks of, speakers were freely punctuated-with applause. iThe. following resolutions were directed to bo telegraphed to the ActingPrima Minister (the Hon. E. A. Kansoni), to the Leader of the Opposition (the Eight Horf. J. G. Coates), and the leader of the Labour Party (Mr. H. X Holland):— '."That Salamau,: in the'unanimous opinion of this meeting, should be released from gaol at once. With all due reispe'et to the Chief Justice, Salaman is, in the opinion of this meeting, no charlatan. The meoting respectfully asks . that the Minister of Justice should immediately release Salaman, whose imprisonment is a great handicap and hardship to hundreds of sufferers who were being.treated by him and now sadly need his help. j:;"That the necessary action be taken by. means of petitioning the authorities and otherwise in order to bring about the release of Salaman with as little delay as possible.. * • "That a committee of five te appointed to draft a petition and otherwise carry into effect the desire of the meeting. ,^'That, having been informed that the police have , intimated, the intention of proceeding with certain minor charges against Salaman in the Magistrate's Court, the meeting respectfully suggests that the Minister of Justice should give the necessary instructions that these charges be not proceeded with in view of Splaman's conviction on the major charge." . Petition lists praying for Salaman's immediate release were distributed and »igited by a large number.