FREE SPEECH
AUCKLAND RESOLUTIONS [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, September 3. A public meeting over which Professor H. Belshaw presided, last evening, passed resolutions expressing the view: — (1) That the Auckland City Council by-law restricting rights of free speech and free assembly is unduly discriminating in action. (2) That facilities provided for exercise of these rights should be equally available to all citizens. (3) That the sentences passed on men who participated in the Beresford Street protest meeting, on July 20, were unnecessarily severe and revival of the curfew was humiliating and an improper use of the probation system. (4) That the Government should not proceed with proposed legislation embodying in statute form certain war regulations on the ground it violates the spirit and principles of British constitutional freedom. Speakers at the meeting were T. B. Slipper and Professor W. A. Sewell, who said that the fight for freedom of speech threatened once again to become a central struggle of political and social life.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1934, Page 2
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