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RECENT "RED WORKER" CASE DECISION ON APPEALS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION*] WELLINGTON, Friday Reserved judgment was delivered in the Supreme Court to-day by Mr. Justice Reed on the appeals by John Joseph Robinson, Alexander Galbraith, and Richard Francis Gfiflin from the sentence of three years' reformative detention imposed on each of them by Mr. E. Page, S.M., on charges under the War Regulations Act.
The charge in respect of which Griffin and Galbraith appealed was that they printed and published an issue of the Red Worker containing allegedly seditious passagesi Robinson appealed from his conviction on a charge of printing and publishing an allegedly seditious pamphlet. The three appeals were dismissed, but the sentences were reduced as follows: Griffin 18 months, Robinson 15 months, Galbraith 12 months, all reformative detention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21296, 24 September 1932, Page 12
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