Minister Gets Gaol
[Per Press Association. Copyright ] WELLINGTON, This Day. Ormond Edward Burton, minister of religion, and William Daniel O’Reilly, labourer, were charged m the Magistrate’s Court today with having obstructed the police in execution ot their duly, and each was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., said it was quite evident from what was happening in other centres that if such meetings as that at which Burton and O’Reilly attempted to speak were allowed to continue, there would most likely be disorder and possibly bloodshed.
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Northern Advocate, 12 February 1940, Page 6
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