DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 July 1941, Page 1

DOMINION NEWS

AUCKLAND, July 18. A summons charge of pubiisnmg information which would, or might, be useful to enemy Slates, was brought, in the Police Court aga.nst Leonard Walter Scott Reid, fitter, emp.oyed at the Otahuhu railway workshops. He pleaded not guilty. The Police Prosecutor sa.d that Reid approached a printer with a request to print a thousand leaflets. lhe ieaiiet was not pi luted. Tne prosecution contends that had the leaflets been printed, some might have fal’en into the hands of persons on neutral ships, and been carried abroad. Defending counsel (Mr Haigh) submitted that there was no legal offence, and that the copy for the leaflets did not come under the censorship and publ ctv emergency regulations. Defendant composed the copy for the leaflets from a we!lknown book, and had no dea it might be valuable to the enemy. '.Che Magistrate (Mr Hunt) said he wa-> satisfied that what was done' was done innocently. He fined Rei ; £2 Counsels application to (be fine to £5 Is, to permit of an appeal, was refused. An increase of 4d to 5d per ]b has been made in the Pr'ce of packet teas. The advance, w’d-h Iris been san-’-t'nnod bv t’l? P;-'?? nW un-d. wiP rai; o the nrices of most iwlW ’’e -'S *o -.nor'c- tWn 4: per lb Hi? highcs<' ■"onrs. *"1 f'” h-”vir* ;r iiccl shelves, the to - •.'ei’nr'vonh* rf n'l firms are nnw engaged 1 hi?,*. b’erdinq and n-.c’-in-' laime shipment mor'' t’mn V~' chests, which ha~ reached Auckland from overseas So short S --W on the local market become th"t some packers had closed their departments. The arriv'] of ~!ippl : es has relieved t b e shortage. The sharn advance which has t q ke n nlace in the local nrice is a reflection of the steen rise that lias occurred in the Colombo market in rseent months, together with the higher costs of fre’ght insurance, etc. “I know nothing more calculated to snlit and disrupt the noople of tlrs country than the formation of a National Government.” said the Health Minister (Mr Nordmeyer). at a meeting in Bayswater. The Minister sa’d it would be imnoss’ble for tlio t' v o part'es, whose interests in domestic matters were so far cnnosed, to a "tee in Ca b inet. Answev>’ng a que-tioner. Mr Nordmeyer said that in his personal iud-mont them won!’ be no National Gnve:nm?n! and there would be a Genera’ Election.