SENTENCES FOR SEDITION.
RESOLUTION OF SECOND DlVIr
SION LEAGUE.
(Per Press Association),
, CHRISTCHURCH, last night. At the. conclusion of a meeting 'of the League to-night; .i.he following motion! carried unanimously, with applause : ! MTliat this meeting of the Christcurch j Second DivisiqiV League have full knowIfi^'ge ,of all the circumstances connected with the. sedition cases and tlie cohvic- 1 tiphs^ that arose out of the recent public j "ieetjhg' and, is strongly of opinion that the; action taken was not meant as an incitement to resei'vist^ to resist ; authority, but to be'addi'essed to the.^Government Hvtih : the ' object ' M hurrying an immediate betterment il condition of' BCTvice, and 1 would earnestly, urge aipon the* Mfnist;er"foT 'Juslice^tha't clenioncy Should be shown to. the offenders and the remainder of their sentenqes. remitted.",
Tlie chairman, Mr. R^ A. Armstrong^ of j Wellington, 1 saltt : it ' had *been his Opinion all along"' that -there was no intentidn to iiiduoe'l'eservists to ' resist. It was : further 'decided' that the cliairnian- be empowered to" present the iTesolution to the Minister for Jltstice, and endeavor to^gefc'-the- 1 stigma-of' soditibn removed from the men's records.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14607, 17 May 1918, Page 6
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