No Convictions In Napier Cases
[Special to “Northern Advocate”l NAPIER, This Day.
In the Napier Police Court yesterday Detective-Sergeant Nuttall said, during the hearing of charges against two young men alleged to be members of the banned sect known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, that the young men declared that where the laws of man conflicted with the laws of God they would disregard the laws of man.
The accused were William Arthur Roberts, farm hand, and Edward Douglas Ridling. They were charged that at Hakowai they encouraged the activities of an organisation declared to be subversive, identified themselves with a subversive organisation and had its literature in their possession. Both pleaded not guilty. The magistrate (Mr J. Miller) said his interpretation was that the regulations were concerned with active organisation. If- all the literature had been taken from the camp where the young men had been staying, with a view to selling it and evading the law he would be bound to convict, but he was not satisfied there was any evidence of intention to sell or distribute. He accordingly dismissed thecases.
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Northern Advocate, 19 November 1940, Page 8
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