INCITING TO LAWLESSNESS
UNEMPLOYED LEADER SENT TO GAOL.
MAGISTRATE’S REMARKS.
By Telegraph—Press Association Christchurch, May 3. On a charge of inciting to lawlessness, Herbert Edwin Barnsley, an unemployed leader, was sentenced to six weeks’ hard labour. Mr E- D. Mosley, S.M., said: “Tho forces of law and order must bo maintained and will be maintained despite the ebullitions of a few irresponsible people. There are a few who do not abide by the laws of the country made for our guidance and protection, and wo must see that they are not impaired. The punishment given to accused will not be made exemplary." Barnsley, who as aged 52, indicated that he intended appealing. The charge on wfiich he was convicted related to a suggestion by him for a hunger march to the Prime Minister’s farm at Cheviot. A second charge was dismissed.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 117, 3 May 1932, Page 7
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