ATOM BOMB PETITION
Men Fined For Carrying Placards PA AUCKLAND, Dec. 11. Two young men who carried placards in Queen street on August 11 calling on people to sign the Peace Council’s petition to ban the atom bomb were found guilty in the Magistrate's Court today of contravening a City Council by-law, and were fined £1 and costs by Mr J. H. Lttxford S.M. The charge was brought by the City Council against Brian Albert Ollerenshaw, aged 21. a university student, and George Lawson Broad, aged 20 a railway worker. Mr Haig, counsel tor Broad, submitted today that the city by-law was unreasonable. and that the placards could not be described as a ” frame." Mr Luxford said that in his opinion the placard was indeed a " frame, and that counsel’s submission that the by-law was unreasonable had no substance
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 10
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139ATOM BOMB PETITION Otago Daily Times, Issue 27570, 12 December 1950, Page 10
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