PEACE PETITION PLACARDS: TWO MEN FINED
AUCKLAND, This Day (P.A.).— Two young men who carried placards in Queen street on August 11 calling on people to sign the Peace Council’s petition to ban the atom bomb were found guilty in the Magistrate’s Court today of contravening a City Council by-law. and were fined £1 and costs by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M. The charge was brought by the City Council against Brian Albert Ollerenshaw, aged 21, a university student, and George Lawson Broad, aged 20, a railway worker. An earlier charge brought by the police of obstructing a constable, was dismissed by Mr Luxford because of omissions by the constable. Mr Haig, counsel for Broad, submitted today that the city by-law was unreasonable and that the placards could not be described as a “frame.”
Mr Luxford said that, in his opinion, the placard was indeed. a “frame” and that counsel’s submission that the by-law was unreasonable had no substance.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1950, Page 6
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