ALLEGED SEDITION
THREE MEN CHARGED STATEMENTS IN PAPER (Pnr Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Three charges of making seditious utterances brought under the Public Safety Regulations, 1940, were preferred against three men in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Harold Alexander Ostler and Travis Burnell Christopher Christie, a junior, were jointly charged with publishing a subversive statement in the People’s Voice contrary to regulation 2 (1) of the Public Safety Regulations, 1940. Two charges of making oral subversive statements were made against William Edward John Aitken. At the request of the police an adjournment for a week was granted.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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97ALLEGED SEDITION Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20379, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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