THREE MONTHS' GAOL
OBSTRUCTING POLICE [by telegraph—tress association] WELLINGTON, Monday In the 'Police Court, tho Rev. Ormond Edward Burton, aged 47, was to day sentenced to three months' imprisonment" with hard labour on a charge of wilfully obstructing n .police officer at a pacifist meeting on Friday evening. At Burton's request security for appeal was fixed. The Magistrate, Mr. J. L. Stout, said Burton would be well advised to stop propaganda, at any rate until hostilities ceased.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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77THREE MONTHS' GAOL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23620, 2 April 1940, Page 8
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