MOVEMENT OF SHIPS
CARELESS TALK COST £SO SYDNEY, April 6 A man aged 70, Samuel John Hood, who said he had been associated with official photography for 50 years, and had sold hundreds of photographs of the personnel of H.M.A.S. Sydney, was fined £SO, with £6 6s costs, in the Central Summons Court on a charge of having given information about the movement of ships and troops. The case was brought under the National Security Regulations. The magistrate, Mr. Cookson. said that Hood had been in a peculiar position to got information not available to the public. He might have beeu one of the people who wanted to air their knowledge. That was where the danger was. "It behoves a man like Hood to keep a secret, and not divulge it," added the magistrate.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24244, 9 April 1942, Page 8
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