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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1935, Page 11

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SEQUEL TO DEPUTATION. [PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 15. Allegations that he stole two documents from Parliament House while he was visiting a Minister of the Crown as a member of a deputation on Wednesday last, were made at the Court to-day in charges of theft against Charles Miles Ormerod, aged 28 years, a seaman, the documents being a letter valued at £l, and an agenda paper valued at 5/-. - The documents, it was stated, had hot been recovered. In applying for bail, Mr A. Free said that the accused was the ’ secretary of a relief workers’ union, and was an announced candidate for the city elections. The Court, therefore, need have no apprehension that he would not appear. The police, however, said that bail should be substantial. DetectiveSergeant Revell said that, although Ormerod might be a candidate for

the elections, it would be as a representative of the Communist Party. He was a single man with no stake in the country, and he had been before the Court for fighting, using obscene language, and writing on a house. Ormerod (interrupting): 1 object. Detective-Sergeant Revell: I would describe him, without any hesitation, as an undesirable. Mr Free said that the fact that he was a member of the Communist Party was, in the eye of the Taw, no part of the case. Ormerod's membership of political organisations attached him to the locality more strongly than any small property qualifications could. Bail was fixed at £5O.