COMPANY FINED.
PROSECUTION IN SAMOA
PENALTIES TOTAL £5600.
Received April 22, 10.50 a.m. APIA, April 21. This morning Mr Justice Luxford convicted Nelson and Company, Ltd., on twenty-eight charges under the Seditious Organisations Ordinance and inflicted a fine of £2OO in respect of each charge, the fines totalling £5600. On a second series of charges under the Maintenance of Authority in Native Affairs Ordinance the prosecution withdrew the charges. _ Summing up, the judge strongly condemned the defendant company.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 120, 22 April 1931, Page 8
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78COMPANY FINED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 120, 22 April 1931, Page 8
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