INTERFERENCE WITH RECRUITING
PROPAGANDIST SENTENCED. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 5. At the Police Court to-day Murdoch Alex. Mcßae, aged 31, was charged with publishing a statement likely to interfere with recruiting, in that he sent a circular entitled “a good soldier,” to the harbourmaster at Rawene. Mcßae admitted sending the circular, which was anonymous, and impressed on the reader that to be a good soldier was the lowest aim in human life, and held out a specific warning about signing attestation papers. Chief Detective McMahon stated that defendant, who was a farmer from Mareretu, near Waipu, had been under surveillance, and had been found to be circulating the letter mentioned. When his house was searched a quantity of literature of the fiery kind usually associated with I.W.W. people was found. Mr Frazer, S.M., after perusing the document, remarked that it missed its intention if it did not interfere with recruiting, and said he could not see any difference between this case and others of the kind that had been before him. Defendant was sentenced to eleven months’ imprisonment, without hard labour.
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Southland Times, Issue 17756, 6 September 1917, Page 5
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183INTERFERENCE WITH RECRUITING Southland Times, Issue 17756, 6 September 1917, Page 5
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