CHARGE DISMISSED
INCIDENT IN PARLIAMENT GROUNDS (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. A banner was displayed in the Magistrate’s Court to-day when Alexander Braid Blanche (31), labourer, and William O’Reilly (33). labourer, appeared on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner following an incident in which they were .'forcibly removed by the police from the Seddon Statue in the Parliament Grounds. After evidence had been heard Mr Mosley, S.M., said he did not think the accuseds’ conduct came within the section of the Police Offences Act under which the charge was laid. Their conduct might have been objectionable. No doubt, to a great majority of the people there it was so, but to others it did not seem so obiectionable. Disorderly conduct in his opinion was something more than what the accused perpetrated on this occasion. Certainly it approached very close to the borderline, but ho thought it was not grave enough to sustain a charge of disorderly conduct. Each was discharged. When Blanche asked what about the return of the banner, Mr Mosley replied: “It is in the custody of the police. It belongs to them. It doesn’t belong to the Court.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 September 1935, Page 4
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194CHARGE DISMISSED Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 September 1935, Page 4
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