GAOL FOR PACIFIST
OBSTRUCTED THE POLICE TERM OF THREE MONTHS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION"] WELLINGTON. Monday A farm labourer, Harold Ray Bray, aged 22, charged in the Police Court to-day with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M. Superintendent Lopdell stated that Bray belonged to the Christian Pacifist Society. "It is significant that this man and, I think, the majority of the others who have been charged, are single men of military, age, some whom have been caught in the ballot and have failed in their appeals against overseas service." Air. Lopdell w ll * tinned. "They have come from as far away as Nelson and Waikato. "Accused came from the Waikato to take his turn, he said, in speaking here. It is noticeable that some of them are not practised public speakers, and it is suggested they have come here because of their failure to get out of military service and the probability of finding a safe place by being charged and sentenced."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23969, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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178GAOL FOR PACIFIST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23969, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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