LENIENCY EXTENDED.
(Press Assn) AUCKLAND. July IS. A summons charge of publishing information which would or mig*t, bo useful to oncniv States was brought in the Police Court against Leonard Walter Scott Keid, a fitter employed at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops, who pleaded not guilty. The police prosecutor said Reid approached a printer with a request to print a thousand leaflets. Tin- leaflet was not printed. The prosecution contended that had the leaflets been printed soino might have fallen into the hands of persons on neutral ships and been carried abroad. Defending counsel submitted there was no legal offence and that the copy for tho leaflets did not come under the censorship and publicity emergency regulations. Defendant had composed the copy for the leaflets from a well-known book and had no idea they might be valuable to the enemy. The Magistrate (Mr Hunt) said he was satisfied that what was done was clone innocently and fined Iteid £2. Counsel's application to increase the fine to -Co Is to permit of an appeal was refused.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 6
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174LENIENCY EXTENDED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 6
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