GAOL FOR A MONTH
LAWLESS SPEECH
TROUBLE OVER EVICTION
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day
Henry Mornington Smith, aged 33, a seaman, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment to-day for encouraging lawlessness by a speech oa Sunday, 11th October, regarding an impending eviction.
He admitted that Ue urged his hearers to fight the eviction, but said he meant morally.
The police stated that Smith was the pronp leader of the Communists in Auckland. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., said that the whole object of the speech wa^s to induce men to prevent eviction. Had he known when he was hearing the case against Edwards on a similar charge that armed resistance was being offered to the eviction, Edwards would have received a much heavier sentence. It would be unfair to treat Smith differently.
At the Magistrate's Court to-day Thomas Davin, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, was lined £a for permitting drunkenness on the premises. Tlo was convicted and ordered to pay coals for opening for sale of liquor after hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1931, Page 10
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