THE GAUDIN CASE.
«4>PROTEST AGAINST SENTENCE. APPEAL TO THE MINISTER. (Peb United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 8. As a result of the meeting held on Wednesday in connection with the sentence of five years' imprisonment passed upon F. E. N.'GiHidin at Samoa, Mr Baxter, who presided, has -written to the Minister of Defence, stating that the people of Auckland feel keenly that a serious wrong has been done to a fellowcitizen for what, at most, appears to have been an act of indiscretion. "It appears quite clear." says the writer, "'that Gaudin did not at any time intend to injure his country or benefit the enemy, and that he merely failed to observe certain regulations, breach of which involved no risk to the lives, property, or interests of any kind of any person or community, and that failure to observe such regulations was due to —(1) a, desire to oblige persons with whom he was associated in business or otherwise nersonally acquainted ; (2) his desire to collect debts due to his firm without the collection of which his firm conld not have continued to carry on business." He urges the Minister to consider whether the breach of the regulations could not be adequately met hy fine.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16277, 9 January 1915, Page 11
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206THE GAUDIN CASE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 16277, 9 January 1915, Page 11
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