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PACIFJST SPEAKERS. (Press Assn.) WELLINGTON, April .30 Dealing with a ease in which defendant addressed a meeting in the Manners Street reserve on behalf of the Christian Pacifist Society, the Magistrate (Mr J. H. Luxford) remarked: “One gets the impression that this society is providing a sort of funk hole for men liable to he called up in the ballot so that they go to prison. It is not for me to comment on that hut those who take part in these meetings must go to prison.”
Defendant was John Whitcly Roal, aged 28. a carpenter, and the charges were wilfully obstructing Superintendent Lopdell in the execution of his duty and conducting a meeting prohibited by the superintendent render the public safety emergency regulations. Fie was convicted on the first charge and sentenced to three months in gaol and was committed for trial on the second charge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 8
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149GAOL PROMISED Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 126, 30 April 1941, Page 8
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