UNUSUAL SENTENCE

Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 9

UNUSUAL SENTENCE

CURFEW INVOKED. --:; —: / , ,/ . ECHO OF ILLEGAL MEETING'* MAGISTRATES -COMMENT,';';(Special ter "Northern Advocate.") AUCKLAND, This Day. The unusual course of imposing curfew on Communists was taken by the Magistrate, Mr Wyvern, Wijspn, at - the conclusion' of the hearing of charges against four men .arising from an illegal street meeting in. Newton.

The men wore.: Louis Williams, aged 30; Alexander Dr.ounan, aged 34j :Sydney Wißiam Scott, aged 34; and Henry Morrington Smith, aged .30. ' The Magistrate said Drennari and Scott wore more, seriously involved than the others. Those two had made . ; up their minds - to defy authority, and they had been guilty of conduct likely - to incite and inflame the - hearing:.6f the people against the'police. - U - - : /‘ I am going to take steps to ensure that none of these four take. par£ ; in such gatherings for some time,” said the Magistrate. Ho sentenced Williams and Scott to 7 days ’ gaol for inciting, and admitted them to probation for - 6ne year for obstructing: the police. He made a. special condition of the probation, that for--.the ..first- three not be out at night from their homes months after their; release' they r must after 7 o’clock. He sentenced Drennan and Smith to three nlonths’ gaol ■ for ineiting, this sentence to be" followed by two years’ probation with the curfew provision for . the first . six months after release, U ..;

.Sentences on the charge of holding an illegal meeting were ‘.postponed;