Twelve Months’ Gaol for Pacifists

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 110, 10 May 1941, Page 6

Twelve Months’ Gaol for Pacifists

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 9. Sentence was delivered by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) to-day on three of the eight members of the Christian Pacifist Society found guilty at the current session of the Supreme Court, Wellington, of breaches of the Public Safety Emergency Regulations. Five were remanded for a week so that it might be decided whether they had not to be sentenced in the Magistrate's Court for the same offence as that for which they had been convicted in the Supreme Court. Arthur Herbert Carman, bookseller, aged 38, was sentenced to imprisonment for twelve months for publishing a subversive statement; Archibald Charles Barrington, secretary of the society, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment ea,ck on charges of publishing a subversive document and attempting to conduct a meeting which had been prohibited by the police, the terms to bo concurrent; John Henderson Woodley, a teacher, aged 21, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for attempting to conduct a prohibited meeting. Those remanded were Ormond Edward Burton, minister of religion; John Whiteley Boal, carpenter, aged 28; David William clerk, aged 28; John Robert Hammerton, plasterer, aged 28; and James Doherty, commer- 1 cial artist, aged 32.