WAR REGULATIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 May 1921, Page 7

WAR REGULATIONS

A CHARGE DISMISSED

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRES« ASSOCIATION.^ WELLINGTON, May 6. _ Patrick Hodgkins Hickey and" John Glover appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., this morning on charges of committing breaches -of the war regulations by publishing and selling respectively a document "The Irish Tragedy and Scotland's Disgrace," which, according to the Crown, expressed seditious intention contrary to war regulation No. 4. The magistrate dismissed the charges, saying the documents had a seditious * intention' to Great Britain, but the question for him to decide was whether it might encourage lawlessness or violence in New Zealand, whether it had a seditious tendency. In this case he was not satisfied that the document was within the section of the Act, and would theretore dismiss the information.