PACIFIST SOCIETY
PROVIDING A "FUNK HOLE" MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Apl. 30. Dealing with a case in which the defendant had addressed a meeting in the Manners Street Reserve on behalf of the Christian Pacifist Society, Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., remarked: "One gets the impression that this society is providing a sort of funk hole for men liable to be called up in.the ballot so that they go to prison. It is not for me to comment on that but those who take part in these meetings must go to prison.'' The defendant was John Whitely Boal, aged 28, a carpenter, and the charges were of wilfully obstructing Superintendent Lopdel] in the execution of his duty and of conducting a meeting prohibited by the superintendent under the Public Safety Emergency Regulations. Bdal was convicted on the first count and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. He was committed for trial on the second charge.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24595, 1 May 1941, Page 2
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