HOLLAND'S SENTENCE
REQUEST FOB. HIS RELEASE. GOVERNMENT~WILL NOT INTERFERE. [From Oua Paeliamentaet Repoeixu.] WELLINGTON July 8. A plea for the release of Henry Holland was made to the Prime Minister this morning by Mr Meyer, a member of a deputation from the Federated Timber Workers’ -Unions, and the reply was remarkably frank and definite. ’The Prime Minister said: “No Government can have anything to do with the administration of justice. Holland has committed an offence, and broken the laws of the -country. He was tided by the Chief Justice in the Supremo Court and a jury of his fellow-country-men. I can express no opinion as tq the severity of the sentence or Other* wise. It would be a very serious matter if the Government or Parliament came to interfere with tho decisions of the courts. If I committed an offence I should have to submit as well as anybody else, and take the consequences. I do not see my way, and the Government do not see their way, to make any recommendation with regard to a remission of the sentence.” Mr Meyer said; “That’s straight enough.
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Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 6
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186HOLLAND'S SENTENCE Evening Star, Issue 15539, 8 July 1914, Page 6
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