SACRED SILENCE BROKEN
A woman wno iaiieu 10 slop aoi motorcar during the two minutes' silence at Kiugswood, near Bristol, was fined ss. She is Miss Louisa Rawlings, and sue was summoned under a pre-war Act for not stopping when a policeman signalled to her to do so. A police constable said that when everything eise was stationary Miss Rawlings drove past, ignoring his signal. Miss Rawlings informed the court that she was a conscientious objector during the war. and did not believe in its commemoration. “I am bound,’ she said, “to do as my conscience commands me.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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98SACRED SILENCE BROKEN Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 9
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